Antony+Leeuwenhoek

= Antony Leeuwenhoek=  " . . my work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy..."

[|Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723)] [|Antoney info and microscope video]- [|more Antony] - has some great links [|Self-made Scientist, Father of Microbiology & Microscope Inventor]

Antony Leeuwenhoek work definetly effected us today. He is best known for his //work// on the improvement of the microscope. he had a simple method for creating over 500 of his one lens microscope. Even though the compound microscope was being perfected, his work was the bases of building powerful microscopes. Today microscopes are used in most science classes and in most laboratory's to look closely at the different species and different type of chemicals.

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 * A** tradesman of Delft, Holland, he came from a family of tradesmen
 * N**o higher education or university degrees
 * T**he scientist learned to grind lenses to make simple microscopes, and began observing with them
 * O**ver 500 of his own handmade microscope, he made
 * N**ever should be known as the inventor of the microscope, because he was not
 * y**earned for his curiosity of science

=__**Hero poster-**__= At age 16 he became apprentice to a Scottish cloth merchant in Amsterdam, and eventually moved back to Delft, where he hung out his own shingle as a draper. He was displeased with using old available lenses to examine the fabrics, so he learned to grind his own. This led to his crafting simple microscopes. He's believed to have been inspired to take up microscopy after reading Robert Hooke's popular illustrated book Micrographia, which depicted Hooke's own observations with the microscope. Not only did he create over 500 simple one lens microscopes, but magnified objects so that their size was over 200 times of its actual size, with clearer and brighter images than any of his predecessors before him. He also discovered microscopic organisms, which he named “animalcules”, as well as sperm cells, blood cells, and muscle fibers. Pretty much any thing that fit under the microscope lens he looked at closely with his 200x microscope. descriptive pictures of his discoveries resulted in his induction as a member of the Royal Society in 1680, where he joined the ranks of many other scientists of his day. Antony Leeuwenhoek is surely one of the best microbiologist of his time. =**__Wanted poster-__**= He is wanted for taking credit of the invention of the microscope. He is also wanted for calling himself the "//Father// of Microbiology & //Microscope// Inventor, because he is not the real inventor of the microscope, he does not deserve to hold the title of it. The title instead belongs to an English man by the name of Robert Hooke, or as some people call him the“English //Father// of Microscopy”. Antony is also charged with not telling his fellow scientists and friends some of his secrets about how he crafted his lenses. The reward for catching this man and bring him to jail is 40,000 dollars, he is not a hero because he only created single lens microscope while some of the scientist before him had already created compound microscopes which can see more than 200x. Robert Hooke of England and Jan Swammerdam of the Netherlands were two of the men who already created compound microscopes.

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