Antony van Leeuwenhoek

A detailed Summary of Antony van Leeuwenhoek

The biologist I chose to report on is Antony van Leeuwenhoek. I

chose to report on him because he made many great microscopic

discoveries. Those discoveries include bacteria, free-living and

parasitic microscopic protist, sperm cells, blood cells, and many

Leeuwenhoek was born on October 24, 1632, in Delft. His

mother's family were brewers and his father was a basket-maker.

Antony was taught at Warmond and lived with his uncle in

Benthuizen. He got his first job in a linen-draper's shop, in 1648. In

1654, he moved back to Delft, where he lived the rest of his life. He

set up a drapery business for a while, but also worked as a surveyor,

wine assayer, and a minor city official. In 1676, he was the trustee of

a famous painter named Jan Vermeer. In 1668, Leeuwenhoek

learned to grind lens and used them to make simple microscopes.

t Hooke was his inspiration to use microscopes.

In September 7, 1674, he describes lake water, and includes a

another very gently moving, with outstretched bodies and

kept discovering organisms until August 30, 1723, at 90 years old.

Leeuwenhoek is often called, "The inventor of the microscope,"

glass and not compound like the ones used today. Leeuwenhoek's

straightened-out tails; yet in an instant, as it were, they pulled their

The old compound microscope were not very good for viewing

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