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 ...

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 ...

It was written by Robert Hooke, then a 30-year-old hunchbacked ... It was around this time — in 1671, specifically — that Anton van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch fabric merchant in Delft, developed a new but ...

This method was described in 1678 by another influential microscopist, the Englishman Robert Hooke, which inspired other scientists to do the same. Van Leeuwenhoek, too, may have taken his lead ...

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 ...

For example, the improvements made to microscopes in the 17th century allowed Robert Hooke and Anton van Leeuwenhoek to describe the cell as the structural unit of life for the very first time 1.