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| 1619 || Technology development || Earliest recorded description of a {{w|compound microscope}} by Dutch inventor {{w|Cornelius Drebbel}}, presented in {{w|London}}. The instrument ia about eighteen inches long, two inches in diameter, and supported on 3 brass dolphins.<ref>Jerome Ch'en, {{w|Nicholas Tarling}}, Studies in the Social History of China and South-East Asia: Essays in Memory of Victor Purcell, Cambridge University Press, Jun 10, 2010, page 215</ref><ref name="The Origins of the Telescope">{{cite book|author1=Albert Van Helden|author2=Sven Dupré|author3=Rob van Gent|title=The Origins of the Telescope|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XguxYlYd-9EC&pg=PA24|year=2010|publisher=Amsterdam University Press|isbn=978-90-6984-615-6|page=24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kCSdiZcsWNsC&pg=PA5&dq=%22Cornelis+Drebbel%22+microscope#PPP1,M1 |title=The Microscope – Its Design, Construction and Applications by F. S. Spiers |publisher=Books.google.be |date= 2008-11-30|accessdate=2010-08-06|isbn=978-1-4437-2594-1}}</ref> ||
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| 1625 || Literature (book) || Italian scientist {{w|Federico Cesi}} publishes his ''{{w|Apiarium}}'', perhaps the first scientific work to which the microscope is applied systematically. || {{w|Italy}}
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| 1625 || Scientific development || German papal doctor {{w|Giovanni Faber}} first coins the name ''microscope''.<ref name="History of Microscopes"/><ref name="Biology Run Amok!: The Life Science Lessons of Science Fiction Cinema"/> || {{w|Germany}}
