The principal drawback of microscopes since van Leeuwenhoek's time was what ... of such condensed material to become a new cell. This theory of 'free cell formation' was reminiscent of the old ...

Van Leeuwenhoek used his invention of the first single-cell microscope to analyse the composition of everything from cheese to the eyes of bugs. Throughout his career he sent more than 560 ...

Samuel Hoole, who translated many of Leeuwenhoek's writings (London, 1799, part 2, p. 178), when describing Fig. II, on Pl.vi., says that the globules of meal are enclosed as it were in cells ...

Who needs fancy electron microscopes when you’ve got the simple but ingenious hand-held microscope through which microbes were seen for the first time almost 340 years ago. These pictures – of ...

How a humble Dutch merchant, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, became the first person to peer into a world of tiny creatures invisible to the naked eye. Show more Antonie van Leeuwenhoek opened up a whole ...

On September 17, 1683, Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek wrote to the Royal Society reporting his discovery of microscopic living 'animalcules' -- perhaps the first written report of ...

Antony van Leeuwenhoek, a draper with an interest in ... that fertilisation occurred at the point that an individual sperm cell penetrates the egg. With lenses that were almost microscopic in ...

Van Leeuwenhoek used his invention of the first single-cell microscope to analyse the composition of everything from cheese to the eyes of bugs. Throughout his career he sent more than 560 ...