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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek did not invent the microscope but some people still refer to him as the father of microscopy. This is because, his insatiable curiosity coupled with extraordinary skills and stunning discoveries did more to dramatize and popularize the field, than anything else had done before. Leeuwenhoek's discovery of microorganisms has tended to overshadow his other work, which was no less noteworthy. He was one of the first comparative anatomists as he studied the structure of several different species. He was ... a pioneer micro-dissectionist and some of his observations are startling even by modern standards. One of his greatest discoveries was parthenogenesis in aphids.
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When Anton Van Leeuwenhoek first transformed a small glass ball into a magnifying lens, he opened a new window into the world of scientific discovery. Four centuries and millions of magnifications later, researchers are able to see the inner workings of the cell and use their observations to unravel many mysteries of life.
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek was born in Delft, Holland, on October 24th 1632. His father was a basket maker and his mother came from a family of brewers. His formal education appears to have lasted a short time, as he is listed as having only attended a school in Warmond. At the age of 16, Anton moved away from Delft to serve an apprenticeship as a linen draper. He came back to Delft in 1654 and established his own drapery business. As part of his work in this business, Leeuwenhoek used a lens to examine cloth for quality.
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"It was Anton van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch cloth merchant and amateur lens grinder, who first made and used lenses to observe living microorganisms. The lenses Leeuwenhoek made were of excellent quality; some gave magnifications up to 300x and were remarkably free of distortion. Making these lenses and looking through them were the passions of his life." (p. 8, Black, 1996)
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Named after Anton van Leeuwenhoek, the father of microbiology, this is the latest from D. E. Shaw Research. This paper describes the massively-parallel hardware part of their super software-hardware technology. I’ve previously described their software here.
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In 1654 Van Leeuwenhoek returned to Delft and married Barbara de Mey, who was to bear him five children. He bought a house and shop and set up in business as a draper. He remained there for the rest of his life. His wife died in 1666 and in 1671 he remarried; his second wife bore him one child.
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