After the first observations of life under the microscope, it took two centuries of research before the 'cell theory', ... C. Antony van Leeuwenhoek and His "Little Animals" (Dover, New York, 1960).

He was the student of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, ... and his drawings of the “little infant” inside the sperm cell, ... Preformationism was a popular theory in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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 ...

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, and ...

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the person considered to be the world's first microbiologist, was born on this day in 1632. Van Leeuwenhoek used his invention of the first single-cell microscope to ...

On September 17, 1683, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, the Dutch microscopist credited with discovering bacteria, sent a letter to the Royal Society of Britain. In this correspondence, he described the ...

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek opened up a whole new world to us; he was the first to observe bacteria and other microscopic lifeforms which could not be seen by the naked eye.

Antony van Leeuwenhoek, a draper with an interest in the natural world spent 50 years making his own lenses and developing unique techniques to light and view his subjects.

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the person considered to be the world's first microbiologist, was born on this day in 1632. Van Leeuwenhoek used his invention of the first single-cell microscope to ...