Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists

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Optics: glass tubes (right) and Leeuwenhoek's first microscope (left) Photograph.

Antonius van Leeuwenhoek. Line engraving by Anker Smith after J. Verkolje, 1695.

Antonius van Leeuwenhoek. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1813, after J. Verkolje.

Antonius van Leeuwenhoek. Line engraving by A. de Blois after J. Verkolje.

Antony van Leeuwenhoek and his "little animals" : being some account of the father of protozoology and bacteriology and his multifarious discoveries in these discliplines / collected, translated, and edited, from his printed works, unpublished manuscripts, and contemporary records by Clifford Dobell.

The cleere observer: a biography of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek / Alma Smith Payne ; illustrated by Charles Pickard.

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, 1632-1723 : l'exercice du regard / par Philippe Boutibonnes.

Giants of Delft : Johannes Vermeer and the natural philosophers : the parallel search for knowledge during the age of discovery / Robert D. Huerta.

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) : le microscope médical et les spermatozoïdes / Henri Lamendin ; [avec Xavier Riaud] ; préface du Xavier Riaud.

Arcana naturae, ope & beneficio exquistissimorum microscopiorum detecta / [Antoni van Leeuwenhoek].

Epistolae physiologicae super compluribus naturae arcanis; ubi variorum animalium atque plantarum fabrica, conformatio, proprietates atque operationes, novis ... / experimentis illustrantur ... hactenus numquam editae.

Opera omnia [Vol. I], seu arcana naturae, ope exactissimorum microscopiorum detecta, experimentis variis comprobata, epistolis, ad ... illustres viros, ut et ad integram, quae Londini floret, Sapientem Societatem ... datis, comprehensa ... / [Antoni van Leeuwenhoek].

The salivary glands in man and animal. Engraving, 1686.

Arcana naturae detecta / Ab Antonio van Leeuwenhoek.

Ontledingen en ontdekkingen van de Cinnaber naturalis, en bus-poeder; van het maaksel van been en huyd, etc / [Antoni van Leeuwenhoek].

Ontledingen en ontdekkingen van levende dierkens in de teel-deelen van verscheyde dieren, vogelen en visschen; van het hout met der selver menigvuldige vaaten, etc / [Antoni van Leeuwenhoek].

Vierde vervolg der brieven / geschreven aan de wytvermaarde Koninkljke Societeyt in London.

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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

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Images by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

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Arcana naturae detecta / Ab Antonio van Leeuwenhoek.

Ontledingen en ontdekkingen van de Cinnaber naturalis, en bus-poeder; van het maaksel van been en huyd, etc / [Antoni van Leeuwenhoek].

Opera omnia [Vol. I], seu arcana naturae, ope exactissimorum microscopiorum detecta, experimentis variis comprobata, epistolis, ad ... illustres viros, ut et ad integram, quae Londini floret, Sapientem Societatem ... datis, comprehensa ... / [Antoni van Leeuwenhoek].

Ontledingen en ontdekkingen van levende dierkens in de teel-deelen van verscheyde dieren, vogelen en visschen; van het hout met der selver menigvuldige vaaten, etc / [Antoni van Leeuwenhoek].

Vierde vervolg der brieven / geschreven aan de wytvermaarde Koninkljke Societeyt in London.

Frequent collaborators

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

Images from the collections

Images by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

Images featuring Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

Works from the collections

Arcana naturae detecta / Ab Antonio van Leeuwenhoek.

Ontledingen en ontdekkingen van de Cinnaber naturalis, en bus-poeder; van het maaksel van been en huyd, etc / [Antoni van Leeuwenhoek].

Opera omnia [Vol. I], seu arcana naturae, ope exactissimorum microscopiorum detecta, experimentis variis comprobata, epistolis, ad ... illustres viros, ut et ad integram, quae Londini floret, Sapientem Societatem ... datis, comprehensa ... / [Antoni van Leeuwenhoek].

Ontledingen en ontdekkingen van levende dierkens in de teel-deelen van verscheyde dieren, vogelen en visschen; van het hout met der selver menigvuldige vaaten, etc / [Antoni van Leeuwenhoek].

Vierde vervolg der brieven / geschreven aan de wytvermaarde Koninkljke Societeyt in London.

Frequent collaborators

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