It’s a bright day in 1677, in the city of Delft, and Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is making love to his wife. But moments after he shudders with orgasm, he hurries out of bed to grab his microscope. After ...

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 ...

March 21, 2018 One of Van Leeuwenhoek's microscopes. Photo: Jeroen Rouwkema via Wikimedia Commons One of Van Leeuwenhoek’s microscopes. Photo: Jeroen Rouwkema via Wikimedia Commons One of the ...

Today's Google Doodle celebrates the 384th birthday of Dutch tradesman Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the first human to observe microbes. You can see his fascinating story in our video above, recounted by ...

Henry Baker drew this illustration of van Leeuwenhoek's microscopes in 1756. __1683: __Anton van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to Britain's Royal Society describing the "animalcules" he observed under ...

Although his microscopes weren’t much bigger than a modern microscope slide, Anton van Leeuwenhoek coaxed 200x magnification out of his small devices.Credit: Blue Lantern Studio/Corbis Perhaps one of ...

Snyder (The Philosophical Breakfast Club) transports readers to the small Dutch city of Delft during the height of the scientific revolution to examine the lives of artists Johannes Vermeer and Antoni ...

WIP script LITTLE ANIMALS THE ANIMATED LIFE OF MICROBES FINE CUT ANNOTATED SCRIPT 7-18-14 DIRECTED AND PRODUCED BY FLORA LICHTMAN & SHARON SHATTUCK FINAL ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 6:17 NARRATORS: BB: Bonnie ...

Pioneering microbiologist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek made the best microscopes of the pre-industrial era with methods that he kept secret. But the first full-3D scans of two of his instruments reveal that ...

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