Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was born October 24, 1632 in Delft, Holland. His father was a basket-maker and his mother's family was brewers. Antoni, as a child, was educated in a school in the town of Warmond and then lived with his uncle in Benghvien. In 1648 he was an apprenticed in a linen-draper's shop. Around 1654 he returned to Delft, where he spent the rest of his life. He had little or no scientific education, yet sometime around 1668, Antoni learned to grind lenses, made simple microscopes, and began observing with them. It appears that he was inspired to take up microscopy by having seen a copy of Robert Hook's illustrated book Micrographia, which showed Hook's own observation with the microscope

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