Great article giving great insight to what he actually did. Often there were not such irreplaceable secrets in antiquity that we can’t equal in the same or other ways. This should be obvious because ...

How scientific instrumentation has expanded human vistas is well illustrated by the contributions of Galileo (telescope) and Leeuwenhoek (microscope). The capability for further and deeper observation ...

Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch naturalist of the 18th century, the founder of scientific microscopy, makes a lens in his workshop. He is visited by an English scientist, a member of the Royal ...

And in 1698, Peter the Great, Czar of Russia, visited and enthusiastically watched a variety of Leeuwenhoek's discoveries. Leeuwenhoek was especially excited to show his visitors “what he considered ...

Now I am curious about how you grind a lens! https://lensonleeuwenhoek.net/content/tiny-lenses says apparently not very well back then. Hubble telescope’s was spin ...