In the late 17th century, a Dutch draper and self-taught scientist named Antonie van Leeuwenhoek earned ... English scientist Robert Hooke was among the first to make significant improvements ...

At first, the things Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek described ... And it turns out that Robert Hooke knew more about Van Leeuwenhoek’s closely-guarded lens-making methods than he thought – because ...

Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek ... He says some of van Leeuwenhoek’s microscopes could magnify things more than 200 times. And contemporaries, like Robert Hooke in England, who ...

On September 7, 1674, Antonie ... few years before Van Leeuwenhoek peered through his first lens—microscopes emerged into the public consciousness when the polymath Robert Hooke published ...

Although his microscopes weren’t much bigger than a modern microscope slide, Anton van Leeuwenhoek coaxed 200x magnification ... It was written by Robert Hooke, then a 30-year-old hunchbacked, ...

Pioneering microbiologist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek made the best microscopes ... he might have succeeded by perfecting his arch-rival Robert Hooke’s techniques. Tiemen Cocquyt at the Rijksmuseum ...

The discovery by Anton van Leeuwenhoek of tiny creatures living ... produced in 1665 by English scientist Robert Hooke (1635–1703). It contained Hooke’s stunning illustrations of a variety ...

Leeuwenhoek . LP: Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek. He was a haberdasher ... He never told anyone how he made his lenses . DA: Robert Hooke, in England . He wrote this wonderful book, Micrographia.

Van Leeuwenhoek, who discovered bacteria, is one of the most important figures in the history of medicine, laying the groundwork for today’s understanding of infectious disease. Online sleuthing ...

Van Leeuwenhoek, who discovered bacteria, is one of the most important figures in the history of medicine, laying the groundwork for today’s understanding of infectious disease. Online sleuthing ...

How a humble Dutch merchant, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, became the first person to peer into a world of tiny creatures invisible to the naked eye. Show more Antonie van Leeuwenhoek opened up a whole ...