Microscope lenses reconstructed according to the method of Robert Hooke, which Antonie van Leeuwenhoek also used for his highly magnifying microscopes. Rijksmuseum Boerhaave/TU Delft ...

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 ...

It was around this time — in 1671, specifically — that Anton van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch fabric merchant in Delft, developed a new but far less ornate microscope with smaller, simpler and, ironically, ...

In 2018, Cocquyt and his team of researchers set out to reveal them without taking Van Leeuwenhoek’s 350-year-old microscope apart. That’s where the nuclear reactor comes in.

Google has gone all scientific with today’s (24 Oct) doodle, celebrating the 384th birthday of microbiology pioneer Antoni van Leeuwenhoek.

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 ...

Google has a new doodle on their homepage today, celebrating the, er, 384th birthday of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the Dutch textile salesman considered the first microbiologist.

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 ...

In 1677, just twenty years after William Harvey's death, Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek created a microscope powerful enough to magnify the sperm found in semen. Because Harvey could not ...

Anton van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to Britain's Royal Society describing the "animalcules" he observed under the microscope. It's the first known description of bacteria.

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Late 1600s – Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek constructed a microscope with a single spherical lens. It ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Late 1600s – Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek constructed a microscope with a single spherical lens. It ...