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The first prototype of a microscope was invented back in the 11th century but the first conventional type of a light microscope or optical microscope was made in 1595.
Hans Lippershey, Hans Janssen and his son, Zacharias are the first to present the first optical instrument, later given a name "microscope" by Giovanni Fabe after Galileo Galilei's compound microscope "occhiolino".
There are 2 basic microscopes in use today: optical microscope (fluorescence microscope using ultraviolet light, stereo microscope, magnifying the image by means of two separate light paths, digital microscope, a compound microscope with digital camera and monitor) and electron microscope (scanning electron microscope using electrons to scan the observed object and transmission electron microscope with electrons passing through the sample).
There is another world around us, take a look under the microscope, the universe inhabited by myriads of tiny life forms. | 
