Failure to Properly Advance the Microscope Discovery

The microscope was already discovered a few recent centuries ago.. It could have been further improved, with each improvement opening new viewpoints, ideas, questions, and fresh discoveries. 

There should have been large, attractive monetary prizes offered, as in the British Longitude program I noted in a past blog. This would have been indispensable in getting at the question of venereal disease which touched the British upper classes as much as it did prostitutes. Instead, syphilis and gonorrhea were both categorized as the “secret disease.” A major curative industry fostered by charlatans did thrive in Britain, but it undoubtedly led to more deaths than any promised cures. 
 
The bacterium cause involved with venereal disease, as with the longitude quandary, may have had solutions found earlier. (See the Earl J. Weinreb NewsHole® comments and @BusinessNewshole tweets.)