Microscope Technology

Question 0

C. 1284

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Italian, Salvino D’Armate is credited with inventing the first wearable eye glasses

Question 1

C. 1000AD

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First vision aid (called a reading stone) was invented but the inventor is unknown. It was a glass sphere that magnified when laid on top of reading materials

Question 2

1590

Answer 2

2 Dutch eye glass makers, Zaccharias Janssen and Hans Janssen experimented with multiple lenses placed in a tube, creating both the forerunner of the compound microscope and telescope