Eleven of van Leeuwenhoek's microscopes have survived, but since he encased his lenses between two metal plates secured with rivets, with just one tiny hole about half a millimeter in diameter ...

On September 7, 1674, Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, a fabric seller living just south of The Hague, Netherlands, burst forth from scientific obscurity with a letter to London’s Royal Society ...

Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek, the father of microbiology, was appalled at the appearance of sperm under the microscope — and wish his discovery would be repressed. Subscribe.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek went on to craft some of the finest microscopes of his time, achieving magnifications of over 200x. Initially secretive about his methods, he eventually became open to ...

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek's microscopes, which he crafted by hand using secret methods, had powers of magnification ranging from 50 to 300 times. His microscopes allowed him to see sperm for the ...

A rare silver microscope attributed to Dutch scientist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is going under the hammer at Christie’s in London on December 13. Delft-born Van Leeuwenhoek (1632 -1723), who is known as ...

Zacharias and Hans Janssen developed the first microscope in the late 16th century. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek refined it, observing microscopic organisms in the 17th century. Sign In ...

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 ...

Ever since Antonie van Leeuwenhoek discovered the world of bacteria through a microscope in the late seventeenth century, humans have tried to look deeper into the world of the infinitesimally small.