He also wrote the finest single work of sacred music in history, the Mass in b minor, which has been argued by many musicologsts and composers to be the single greatest work of music of all time, in any genre, in any style. Whereas, most composers did not typically relish complexity, Bach was at home in it.
It is difficult to say who invented the compound microscope. Dutch spectacle-makers Hans Janssen and his son Zacharias Janssen are often said to have invented the first compound microscope in 1590, but this was a declaration made by Zacharias Janssen himself during the mid 1600s. The date is unlikely, as it has been shown that Zacharias Janssen actually was born around 1590.
The compound microscope was invented 40 years before Anton van Leeuwenhoek was born. He used a simple one lens microscope. More: Anton van Leeuwenhoek, (October 24, 1632 -- August 26, 1723) is known as the Father of Microbiology. He was from Delft, Netherlands.