In 1677, Leeuwenhoek’s now-verified observations were published by the Royal Society (in English, after being translated from Dutch with help from Hooke, who learned Dutch so that he could read ...

By contrast, sperm would remain mostly a mystery in Leeuwenhoek’s own lifetime. After telling Leeuwenhoek to make more observations, the Royal Society finally published his paper in Latin in 1679.

In 1677, Leeuwenhoek’s now-verified observations were published by the Royal Society (in English, after being translated from Dutch with help from Hooke, who learned Dutch so that he could read ...

Pioneering microbiologist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek made the best microscopes of the pre-industrial era with methods that he kept secret. But the first full-3D scans of two of his instruments reveal ...

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 ...

THE connexion of Leeuwenhoek with the Royal Society was unique, sinoe, although for fifty years he was a constant correspondent and for forty-three years a fellow, he never attended a single ...

A head louse as microscope pioneer Antoni van Leeuwenhoek might have seen it (Image: Brian J. Ford) Who needs fancy electron microscopes when you've got the simple but ingenious hand-held ...

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 ...

Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch scientist and tradesman (1632–1723), was inspired to make and use them by a best-selling book, Micrographia, produced in 1665 by English scientist Robert Hooke (1635–1703).

This animated documentary celebrates the 17th-century citizen scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, whose discovery of microbes would change our view of the biological world.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is being celebrated for his work on microbiology with a Google Doodle. And it is well deserved – he is the scientist who perhaps did the most to help us understand what ...