compound microscope in a sentence

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1. Dutch draper and pioneering microbiologist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek ( 1632 1723 ), a contemporary of artist Vermeer ( and an executor for Vermeer when he died in 1675 ) in Delft was known to have exceptional lens making skills, having created single small lenses capable of 200x magnification, far exceeding those of more complex compound microscopes of the period.