We all did it. Sometime during our junior high school science class, the microscope came out and glass slides were created with ordinary pond water sandwiched in between the slide ...

10:11, Mon, Oct 24, 2016 Updated: 10:57, Mon, Oct 24, 2016 Today marks the 384th birthday of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, who is referred to as the ‘Father of Microbiology’. Born today in 1632, the Dutch ...

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is a well-known pioneer in the field of microscopy. His research was so advanced, it took about 150 years for another researcher to improve on his work. But Van Leeuwenhoek, who ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . One of the thrilling aspects of scientific discovery is that it can come from almost anywhere, and almost anyone ...

A microscope used by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to conduct pioneering research contains a surprisingly ordinary lens, as new research by Rijksmuseum Boerhaave Leiden and TU Delft shows. It is a remarkable ...

Great article giving great insight to what he actually did. Often there were not such irreplaceable secrets in antiquity that we can’t equal in the same or other ways. This should be obvious because ...

The doodle represents the "little animals" Leeuwenhoek discovered that later became known as bacteria Monday marks the 384th birthday of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, credited with being the first ...

Google is honoring Dutch-born scientist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek with a Doodle to mark his 384th birthday. Known as the “Father of Microbiology,” van Leeuwenhoek designed the single-lens microscope and ...

Van Leeuwenhoek's microscope's were simple gadgets by today's standards, with a spike to hold the object being studied and a single magnifying lens to look through. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, the 17 ...

Monday marks the 384th birthday of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, credited with being the first microbiologist. While he might not be a household name today, the Dutch textile salesman ground and polished ...

Now I am curious about how you grind a lens! https://lensonleeuwenhoek.net/content/tiny-lenses says apparently not very well back then. Hubble telescope’s was spin ...