LEEUWENHOEK, ANTONY VAN

änˈtōnē vän lāˈvənhookˌ, 1632–1723, Dutch student of natural history and maker of microscopes, b. Delft. His use of lenses in examining cloth as a draper's apprentice probably led to his interest in lens making. He assembled over 247 microscopes, some of which magnified objects 270 times. In the course of his examination of innumerable microorganisms and tissue samples, he gave the first complete descriptions of the bacteria, the protozoans (which he called animalcules), spermatozoa, and striped muscle. He also observed the red blood cells in his detailed study of capillary circulation. He was elected to the Royal Society of England in recognition of his work.

See his collected letters (Vol. I–VI, 1939–61).

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Antony van Leeuwenhoek and His "Little Animals": Being Some Account of the Father of Protozoology and Bacteriology and His Multifarious Discoveries in These Disciplines
Book by Clifford Dobell, Antony van Leeuwenhoek; Harcourt, Brace, 1922
Subjects: Bacteria, Leeuwenhoek, Antoni Van--1632-1723, Protozoa
CONTENTS The Epistle to the Reader 1 PART I. -- LEEUWENHOEK The Life of Antony van Leeuwenhoek 19 PART II. -- THE "LITTLE ANIMALS" Chapter 1. -- The First Observations on "Little Animals...
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Measuring the Invisible World: The Life and Works of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
Book by A. Schierbeek; Abelard-Schuman, 1959
Subjects: Leeuwenhoek, Antoni Van--1632-1723
...2. DOBELL C. 1932 Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and his little animals, London...1958. HAAXMAN P. J. 1875 Antony van Leeuwenhoek, de Ontdekker der Infusorien...A. 1950, 1951 Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Leven en Werken, 2 vol...
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Giants of Delft: Johannes Vermeer and the Natural Philosophers : The Parallel Search for Knowledge during the Age of Discovery
Book by Robert D. Huerta; Bucknell University Press, 2003
Subjects: Art And Science--History--17th Century, Leeuwenhoek, Antoni Van--1632-1723, Vermeer, Johannes--1632-1675
...84-85, 88, 92, 94, 97 Leeuwenhoek, Antony van: and ambiguity of perception...29; Galileo and, 33-35; Leeuwenhoek and, 30-32; Vermeer and...simple, development and use by Leeuwenhoek, 31-32; technical problems...
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An Orientation in Science
Book by C. W. Watkeys, H. L. Alling, J. E. Hoffmeister, W. Berry, C. Stern, R. G. Daggs, R. P. Tittsler, F. C. Fairbanks, W. E. Van De Walle, R. W. Helmkamp, T. Russell Wilkins; McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1938
Subjects: Science
...of personal and community hygiene. History of Bacteriology. Bacteria were first seen and described in 1683 by Antony van Leeuwenhoek, a linen draper and minor public ____________________ 1 For definition of bacteria, see page...
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The Nature of Concepts: Evolution, Structure, and Representation
Book by Philip Van Loocke; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: Concepts
...Cambridge world history of disease pp. 113-126 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Dobell, C. 1958 . Antony von Leeuwenhoek and his little animals . New York: Russell and Russell. f Fracastorius, H. 1930 . Contagion, contagious diseases...
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journal articles on: Leeuwenhoek Antony Van  - 6 results

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Marvels of Bacterial Behavior1
Journal article by Howard C. Berg; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 150, 2006
Subjects: Bacteria, Changes, Chemicals, E coli, Kinases, Molecular weight, Proteins
...Bacteria were discovered in 1676 by Antony van Leeuwenhoek, who was captivated by their motility...and translated the letters that van Leeuwenhoek had sent to the Royal Society. Van Leeuwenhoek did his work with single lens microscopes...
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From Observation to Theory with Resurrected Rotifers
Journal article by Joe R. Clopton; The American Biology Teacher, Vol. 70, 2008
Subjects: Rotifera--Properties, Rotifers--Properties, Science education--Methods, Science--Methods, Science--Study and teaching, Sciences education--Methods, Scientific method--Study and teaching
...OMITTED These words, written by Antony van Leeuwenhoek in 1702, are the first report of...observers for more than 300 years. And van Leeuwenhoeks report, importantly...probably the species described above by van Leeuwenhoek Ford, 1982; Tunnacliffe...
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Clifford Dobell and the Making of Paul de Kruif's Microbe Hunters
Journal article by Jan Peter Verhave; Medical History, Vol. 54, 2010
...the seventeenth-century Dutchman Antony van Leeuwenhoek, who had described various "little...diseases. Dobell put his notes on van Leeuwenhoek at De Kruif s disposition...Dobell published his book on Antony van Leeuwenhoek on the three hundredth...
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The Sexual Politics of Microscopy in Brobdingnag
Journal article by Deborah Needleman Armintor; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 47, 2007
Subjects: Authors, English--Works, English writers--Works, Gulliver's Travels (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Imaginary places--Criticism and interpretation, Microscope and microscopy--Portrayals, Microscopy--Portrayals, Swift, Jonathan (English satirist)--Works
...European scientists such as Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Marcello Malpighi, and Royal...single Votary, which is Mr. Leeuwenhoek; besides whom, I hear of none...exemplary microscope user, Leeuwenhoek, is not English.) It is this...
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The Truth about Our Bones: William Cheselden's Osteographia
Journal article by Allister Neher; Medical History, Vol. 54, 2010
...minimize them by having his artists, Gerard van der Gucht (1695/6-1776) and Jacob...stylistic analysis strongly indicates that van der Gucht and Schijnvoet made the drawings...the drawings and engravings were done by van der Gucht and Schijnvoet: "Two of the...
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magazine articles on: Leeuwenhoek Antony Van  - 4 results

 
 
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Photographing Chromosomes-The Colored Bodies
Magazine article by Russell Rohde; PSA Journal, Vol. 64, December 1998
Subjects: Chromosomes--Illustrations, photographs, etc., Photography, Biological--Usage, Photomicrography--Usage
...articles requiring magnifying lenses are microscopic if close by and telescopic if distant. Dutch cloth merchant Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) built microscopes with resolutions of x270 enabling him to describe blood corpuscles and spermatozoa...
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Artificial Animalcules: In the Microscopic Realm, Machines Learn to Swim
Magazine article by Peter Weiss; Science News, Vol. 169, February 18, 2006
Subjects: Diagnostic equipment (Medical)--Innovations, Inertia (Mechanics)--Research
...In the Microscopic Realm, Machines Learn to Swim. by Peter Weiss Some 300 years ago, microscope inventor Antony van Leeuwenhoek stunned the world when he became the first to observe "animalcules" that were "very prettily a-moving" in...
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Questioning the Caterpillar
Magazine article; Natural History, Vol. 101, December 1992
Subjects: Merian, Maria, Nature, Personal profiles, Visual artists
...including one by the Dutch biologist and microscopist Antony van Leeuwenhoek. A caterpillar, she wrote, had fifty shining red warts. Leeuwenhoek is of the opinion that these are eyes. To date I...
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The 50,000 Club
Magazine article by Steve Mirsky; The Scientist, Vol. 18, November 22, 2004
...brings to mind various other milestones in the history of biology and biomedical research. DEC. 23, 1702: Antony van Leeuwenhoek spots the 50,000th microbe he has observed swimming around in what he had previously believed to be crystal...


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encyclopedia articles on: Leeuwenhoek Antony Van  - 4 results

 
 
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Leeuwenhoek, Antony Van
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LEEUWENHOEK, ANTONY VAN an tone van la v nhook , 1632 1723, Dutch student of natural history and maker of microscopes, b. Delft. His use of lenses in examining cloth as a drapers apprentice probably led to his interest in lens making. He assembled...
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Bacteria
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...kingdom level. Bacteria were the only form of life on earth for 2 billion years. They were first observed by Antony van Leeuwenhoek in the 17th cent.; bacteriology as an applied science began to develop in the late 19th cent. as a result of...
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Microscope
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...instrument and for their new designs and improvements, among them G. B. Amici, Nehemiah Grew, Robert Hooke, Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Marcello Malpighi, and Jan Swammerdam. The compound microscope is widely used in bacteriology, biology...
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Cell , in Biology
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...techniques. Among those who contributed to early knowledge of cells through their use of the microscope were Antony van Leeuwenhoek , Robert Hooke , and Marcello Malpighi . In the 19th cent. Matthias J. Schleiden and Theodor Schwann developed...


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