Anton van Leeuwenhoek

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Noun1.Anton van Leeuwenhoek - Dutch pioneer microscopist who was among the first to recognize cells in animals and who gave the first accurate descriptions of microbes and spermatozoa and blood corpuscles (1632-1723)Anton van Leeuwenhoek - Dutch pioneer microscopist who was among the first to recognize cells in animals and who gave the first accurate descriptions of microbes and spermatozoa and blood corpuscles (1632-1723)
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Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, [1] observed many little holes on tibia extending from cortex to medulla like as small pipes going long ways.
The study of the life indoors began in earnest with the work of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), a Dutch microscopist.
In 1675, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked through a two-millimeter-thick sphere of glass at a puddle of rainwater.
They describe role of the ideas of Aristotle, the scientific method of Francesco Redi, the transformation of science during the Enlightenment, Robert Hooke's Micrographia, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek's microscope, the ideas of Voltaire and Buffon, Darwin's The Origin of Species, germ theory of disease vs.
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