The Greeks were the first people to make the lens but they never made the compound microscope. The Dutch who live in the Netherlands made the compound but it is unknown who exactly made it because so many claims shot up at the same time that it is near impossible to know who actually made the compound microscope. It is said that the compound microscope was made by someone who watched kids play with the lenses that he made. The kids supposedly put one lens on top of another lens and saw that they made things look even bigger. That really is all that the compound microscope is-an eye lens that you put your eye to and an objective lens that is closer to the object you are looking at.
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