Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch naturalist of the 18th century, the founder of scientific microscopy, makes a lens in his workshop. He is visited by an English scientist, a member of the Royal ...

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Although Antoni van Leeuwenhoek has rightly earned his reputation as the founder of microbiology and the maker of fine simple microscopes, it was a contemporaneous and largely unknown mid-17th-century ...

In the late 17th century, a Dutch draper and self-taught scientist named Antonie van Leeuwenhoek earned renown for building some of the best microscopes available at a time when the instrument was ...

Under the microscope a drop of pond scum can give hours of delightful study. What feels between the fingers like slime is, microscopically, an open lake crowded with queer vegetable and animal life.

In the 17th century, a Dutch merchant named Antony van Leeuwenhoek began experimenting with making new microscope lenses and, in the process, plunged humanity into a new world—this one teeming with ...

The 17th-century Dutch scientist Antony van Leeuwenhoek loved looking through his microscope. Leeuwenhoek first became known for his skill at making lenses — instruments that could magnify objects up ...

Antony van Leeuwenhoek found God’s great glory in his tiny creations. During the last years of Antony van Leeuwenhoek’s (say it “la´vnhook´”) life, dignitaries from all over Europe, including Russian ...

ON October 24, 1632, four days after the birth of Sir Christopher Wren at East Knoyle, Wiltshire, the tercentenary of which has just been celebrated, Antony van Leeuwenhoek, the eminent Dutch ...

It was, as van Leeuwenhoek realized, necessary to learn to see” (2015, p. 316). Apropos of our current topic of feelings, one might say it is easier to see behaviors than to see the feelings behind ...