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 ...

A microscope from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek from the 17th century can be seen in the Reiss Engelhorn Museum Zeughaus, Germany Credit: Alamy He wrote approximately 560 letters to the society and ...

Leeuwenhoek wasn’t a trained scientist, but he made his mark on the history of biology by creating lenses powerful enough to observe what no person had before: red blood cells, sperm cells ...

Google Doodle has marked the 384th birthday of scientist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek - considered the world's first microbiologist who discovered sperm. Van Leeuwenhoek, was born today in 1632 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Leeuwenhoek knew his discovery was important: he went on to find sperm in many other animals and determine that they were made by the testes. But he was also a little overexcited by their potential.

Van Leeuwenhoek had a varied career in his hometown of Delft, Netherlands. He earned money with stints as fabric merchant, surveyor, wine assayer and minor city official.

Google Doodle is celebrating the life and work of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, who was born today in 1632. Commonly known as the father of microbiology and considered the first microbiologist, Mr van ...

Though he wasn’t formally trained, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, who sold fabric, ribbon, and buttons in Delft, a town in the Netherlands, was a curious man with a knack for making a lens that could ...

Van Leeuwenhoek had to hold the 3- or 4-inch instrument close to his eye. Besides good lighting, it required sharp eyesight and a fair dose of patience. Van Leeuwenhoek had both.