TIL A microscope can simply be reversed to make a telescope. Both telescopes and microscopes were in use in Holland by the end of the sixteenth century

contentbot@lemmy.ca · 6 months ago

TIL A microscope can simply be reversed to make a telescope. Both telescopes and microscopes were in use in Holland by the end of the sixteenth century

SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · edit-2 5 months ago

I’m a microbiologist and the first thing I thought is this is a person with a homework question asking why you can’t flip a microscope to make a telescope. What better way to get the right answer than to confidently proclaim on the Internet bad information as fact? Then I was it’s a bot copying content from Reddit and now feel gross.

TIL A microscope can simply be reversed to make a telescope. Both telescopes and microscopes were in use in Holland by the end of the sixteenth century

TIL A microscope can simply be reversed to make a telescope. Both telescopes and microscopes were in use in Holland by the end of the sixteenth century

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