2010 census [edit]. As of the census of 2010, there were 2,184 people, 925 households, and 564 families residing in the city. The population density was 618.7 inhabitants per square mile (238.9/km 2). There were 1,082 housing units at an average density of 306.5 per square mile (118.3/km 2).
Anton van Leeuwenhoek. It was Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), a Dutch draper and scientist, and one of the pioneers of microscopy who in the late 17th century became the first man to make and use a real microscope.
There are other claims that the microscope and the telescope were invented by Roger Bacon in the 13th century, but this is not substantiated. Giovanni Faber coined the name microscope for Galileo Galilei 's compound microscope in 1625 (Galileo had called it the  occhiolino  or  little eye ).