Anton Van Leeuwenhoek Drawings. Anton van Leeuwenhoek October 24 1632August 30 1723 invented the first practical microscopes and used them to become the first person to see and describe bacteria among other microscopic discoveries. Using these microscopes he made a number of crucially important scientific discoveries including single-celled animals and plants bacteria and spermatozoa.
They lived a few minutes walk from one another and both worked with and were fascinated by state-of-the-art optical devices optics and perhaps its. Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek FRS ˈ ɑː n t ə n i v ɑː n ˈ l eɪ v ən h uː k-h ʊ k AHN-tə-nee vahn LAY-vən-hook -huuk. On human eyelashes on fleas in dust and on skin.
He wrote them in Dutch the only language that he knew.
A moderately educated owner of a textile business he learned how to make his own unique microscopes which offered unparalleled magnification. Antony van Leeuwenhoek 1632-1723 Antony van Leeuwenhoek was an unlikely scientist. A history of the compound microscope. He then inserted the tiny point of one of the rods into the fire and that created a small glass sphere on its end.
