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Microscope

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An optical instrument that augments the power of the eye to see small objects.

The name microscope was coined by Johannes Faber (1574-1629) who in 1628 borrowed from the Greek to combined micro-, small with skopein, to view.

Although the first microscopes were simple microscopes, most (if not all) optical microscopes today are compound microscopes

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