According to Wikipedia, the name Microscope was derived from the earlier "Telescope", which in turn was coined shortly after the object was invented: > Galileo

According to Wikipedia, the name Microscope was derived from the earlier "Telescope", which in turn was coined shortly after the object was invented: > Galileo's instrument was the first to be given the name "telescope". The name was invented by the Greek poet/theologian Giovanni Demisiani at a banquet held on April 14, 1611 by Prince Federico Cesi to make Galileo Galilei a member of the Accademia dei Lincei. The word was created from the Greek tele = 'far' and skopein = 'to look or see'; teleskopos = 'far-seeing'. The primary source for this is "Rosen, Edward, The Naming of the Telescope (1947)".