In the late 17th century, a Dutch draper and self-taught scientist named Antonie van Leeuwenhoek earned renown for building some of the best microscopes available at a time when the instrument was ...

Today marks the 384th birthday of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, who is referred to as the ‘Father of Microbiology’. Born today in 1632, the Dutch tradesman and scientist designed the single-lens ...

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 ...

Her fifth science biography, Through the Microscopes of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek , tells the fictional accounts of a young heroine and a renowned scientist. Together, they discover the science.

Henry Baker drew this illustration of van Leeuwenhoek's microscopes in 1756. 1683: Anton van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to Britain's Royal Society describing the "animalcules" he observed under ...

Google is honoring Dutch-born scientist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek with a Doodle to mark his 384th birthday. Known as the “Father of Microbiology,” van Leeuwenhoek designed the single-lens ...

A rare silver microscope attributed to Dutch scientist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is going under the hammer at Christie’s in London on December 13. Delft-born Van Leeuwenhoek (1632 -1723), who is known as ...

One of the thrilling aspects of scientific discovery is that it can come from almost anywhere, and almost anyone. Few individuals exemplify this like Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, who, despite having ...

This study, which seems to show that Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was deceiving colleagues and rivals with a boastful lie about a new way of making lenses, has been reported in Science Advances. We'll still ...

The modern binocular microscope is of course much easier to use, but it took another 150 years after Leeuwenhoek before anyone was able to get multiple lens microscopes to be as good as his single ...

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.