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 - eviltoast
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    6 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.