Helen J Power, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002411
1632–1723 Dutch amateur scientist who ground his own lenses and whose microscopical studies made important contributions to knowledge about microorganisms and the structure of blood vessels and cells.
Keywords: microscopy; natural history; microorganisms; spontaneous generation; sexual reproduction
| Further Reading | |
| book Leeuwenhoek Commission of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Amsterdam (eds) (1939–1967) The Collected Letters of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. Amsterdam: Swets & Zeitlinger. | |
| book Dictionary of Scientific Biography (1972) Gillispie CC (ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| book Dobell C (1932) Antony van Leeuwenhoek and His ‘Little Animals’. London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson. | |
| book Ford BJ (1990) The Leeuwenhoek Legacy. London: Farrand Press. | |
| book Ruestow EG (1996) The Microscope in the Dutch Republic: The Shaping of Discovery. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. | |
| book Schierbeek A (1959) Measuring the Invisible World. The Life and Works of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. London and New York: Abelard-Schuman. | |
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