Anton Van Leeuwenhoek And his microscope Michelle 1600941999

Van Leeuwenhoek October 24, 1632 – August 26, 1723 Dutch tradesman and scientist Invented the first practical microscopes “the Father of Microbiology” Discovered many microorganisms protozoa "animalcules". bacteria sperm At the age of 16, he worked as a bookkeeper at a linen-draper's shop. Textile merchants widely used small lenses for cloth inspection Van Leeuwenhoek discovered "protozoa" - the single-celled organisms and he called them "animalcules".

The first microscope two brass plates, one small piece of glass, which is the lens Can see the point of the pen put the specimen near the pen

Microscope Now & Then Compound microscope Stage revolving nosepiece magnification times of inspection

Famous words "My work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men. And therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof." - Anton Van Leeuwenhoek Letter of June 12, 1716 A world filled with creatures that all humans have never seen

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