Assertion: microscope | /r/HasProperty | novelty
Facets:
value: until 1670s
type: TEMPORAL
value: until the 1660s
type: TEMPORAL
value: largely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The microscope was still largely a novelty until the 1660s and 1670s when naturalists in Italy, the Netherlands and England began using them to study biology.