ANTONY VAN LEEUWENHOEK.
This is an essay about the Dutch linen-draper of the seventeenth century who made more than 500 microscopes and used them to observe the tail of an eel, the sting of a bee, the nose of a louse, the brain of a fly, the spinning apparatus of a spider, the bacteria from his own mouth, etc., and who wrote enthusiastic letters to the Royal Society of London carefully describing what he saw.
D000818:Animals; D000854:Anoplura; D001419:Bacteria; D001516:Bees; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D008131:London; D008511:Medicine; D008853:Microscopy; D009426:Netherlands; D013112:Spiders
BIOGRAPHIES; HISTORY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 17TH CENT.; MICROSCOPY; NETHERLANDS