In 1677, just twenty years after William Harvey's death, Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek created a microscope powerful enough to magnify the sperm found in semen. Because Harvey could not ...

Researchers from Delft University of Technology and Rijksmuseum Boerhaave have solved a centuries-old puzzle regarding the microscopes of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. He used thin lenses that he ground ...

This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. In hopes of seeing why a peppercorn tastes peppery, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) soaked one in water and put ...

The light microscope was first developed and famously used in the late 1600s by the Dutch naturalist, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, to look at small pond creatures he called "animalcules." Observations ...

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 ...

Late 1600s – Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek constructed a microscope with a single spherical lens. It magnified up to ×275. 1800s - the optical quality of lenses increased and the ...

An informative documentary in five parts about the life of the 17th century microbiologist and microscopist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and his discoveries in the field of micro-organisms.

Since Antonie van Leeuwenhoek first saw bacteria through the light microscope in 1668, we have discovered vast amounts of new information about pathogens. In the last two decades alone.

Het Antoni van Leeuwenhoek heeft een eigen kwaliteitsmanagementsysteem ontwikkeld om de kwaliteit van zorg aan te tonen en continu te verbeteren. “Het thema kwaliteit is nu meer van de ...