The Tube That Changed The World

What type of microscope has been used for over 400 years and is considered an ingeniously simple device?

• Electron microscope

• Optical microscope

Which two individuals are mentioned as pioneers of the telescope who also experimented with lenses to examine objects on Earth?

• Robert Hooke and Antony van Leeuwenhoek

• Galileo Galilei and Hans Lippershey

Which father and son team is often credited with inventing the microscope by using two very small, almost spherical convex lenses?

• Hans and Zacharias Janssen

• Antony and Jan Leeuwenhoek

Who was the English philosopher who scrutinized thin slices of cork and named the tiny compartments he observed "cells"?

• Antony van Leeuwenhoek

• Robert Hooke

Who was the Dutch polymath who designed his own handheld microscope and discovered organisms he called "animalcules," including bacteria and human cells?

• Zacharias Janssen

• Antony van Leeuwenhoek