All in a Drop: How Antony van Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible World by Lori Alexander

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (11) ◽  
pp. 465-465
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Bush
Keyword(s):  
Antony Van Leeuwenhoek

Antony van Leeuwenhoek

2002 ◽  
Vol 126 (6) ◽  
pp. 658-659
Author(s):  
Venita Jay
Keyword(s):  
Antony Van Leeuwenhoek

scholarly journals Were the First Microscopes Really That Good?

1998 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
Stephen W. Carmichael
Keyword(s):  
Observational Skills ◽  
Antony Van Leeuwenhoek ◽  
Scientific American

When I see a drawing by an earty microcopist, I am often Impressed by the amount of detail they illustrated. I am frequently amazed by the resolution they apparently were able to achieve with primitive (by today's standards) unconected optics. Were their instruments and observational skills realty that good, or were they just lucky, correctly guessing what was beneath their lens? In an amazing pictorial published in the April issue of Scientific American, Brian Ford convincingly answers this question.Ford describes the controversies surrounding descriptions by Antony van Leeuwenhoek in 1674 and Robert Brown in 1827. Both of these pioneer microscopists were often dismissed by their contemporaries and ignored for many years after their deaths. Leeuwenhoek was considered to be a man of fertile imagination whose observations of “animalcules” in pond slime were not appreciated until the time of Louis Pasteur.

Antony van Leeuwenhoek

1932 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 573 ◽  
Author(s):  
CARL V. WELLER
Keyword(s):  
Antony Van Leeuwenhoek

scholarly journals VI. A second letter from Mr. Antony Van Leeuwenhoek, F. R. S. to John Chamberlayne, Esq; F. R. S. upon the same subject as the former

1708 ◽  
Vol 26 (324) ◽  
pp. 499-502
Keyword(s):  
Antony Van Leeuwenhoek

Sir, Since the Communicating to You my last Thoughts and Observations concerning Ra­zors some Weeks ago, I have often view'd the Hairs of my Chin with a Microscope after they were cut off, and always observed upon the white or Grey Hairs the Streaks which are made by the small Notches that, as I told you in my former, I had discover'd in my Razor, especially when those Hairs were Cut more obliquely than usual.

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