What was the approximate magnification of Leeuwenhoek s first microscopes?
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Mar 3, 2017
What I have read, I can tell you and that is, Leeuwenhoek could achieve a magnification of about 200x which was really amazing in an age when compound microscopes had a magnification of 20x to 30x.
His simple microscope was more of a magnifying glass, but he could discover not only protists, but much smaller bacteria by using his simple microscopes.
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