Leeuwenhoek and Microscopic Life | AMS OpenMind

Microbes are inside us, on us, and all around us. 🦠 They have many functions: they can cause material degradation, ferment sugar to make wine, and produce antibiotics. 🍷💊 But did you know that the person who discovered microbes wasn’t a scientist? It was a cloth merchant! 🧵

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, dissatisfied with the lenses available, learned to make glass and created high-quality glass spheres that could magnify objects up to 270 times. 🔬 His microscopes, less than 5cm in size, revealed a world never seen before. Van Leeuwenhoek sent his discoveries to the Royal Society in London, including mold, lice, and bees. 🐝

However, his next discovery shocked scientists: tiny animals in pond water, which he called “animalcules,” now known as microbes. 🌊🦠 This was the first observation of single-celled organisms, and it took political and religious figures to verify his findings before he was believed. Van Leeuwenhoek communicated his discoveries through hundreds of letters, describing blood cells, capillary blood flow, and sperm cells, helping to refute the theory of spontaneous generation. 📜

Science would never be seen the same way again.

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[vincentsanchez]

I have an AA in natural sciences, but managed to work my way up from being a lab technician into becoming a microbiologist all the while being bullied by my coworkers for 6 years because i didnt have a bachelors of science in biology. I finally quit my job and came back to school to get a more formal education in microbiology. Dont give up on yourself because you lack the proper credientials for something. Believe in yourself and be curious enough to do what you actually enjoy. Always looke up at the stars and not down at your feet. There is always something you can do and be good at. Dont give up.

[jwildy]

Very wonderful, thank you! Btw, "animalcules" was what the English Royal Society dubbed his "diertjes, " his word in Dutch for "little animals." Those scientists loved Latin and it was a kind of Latin-based invented word. I think Diertjes is a much more endearing word!
Also, one site says he did publish - "Antonie van Leeuvenhoek published a similar book (like Hooke's) for the general reader, entitled Arcana Naturae Detecta—1695 (in Latin) [3], which was designed to educate the public about his microscopic observations he submitted at regular intervals in the form of letters to the Royal Society in London (UK). ...this comprehensive volume (600 pages), [was given] the popular title “Nature’s Mysteries Disclosed”,

[fozello]

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[Clanker-boi]

Perspectives of madness into a form of logic is what reality is.

[billymitchell]

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[stupidtortoise]

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[Tachin-lnwt]

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[correduriadeseguroscorrald]

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[tamannajoshi]

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[valeriaolaguecast]

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[kevinpaez]

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[swethaamanaganti]

Which type of microscope he discovered

[jambeniebuenaventura]

Can I have a question?did he write any books about his discoveries?if so please name them below or reply in this comment.thank youu.

[joshwood]

How do you define a “scientist”? Anyone can be a scientist.

[jeremywvarietyofviewpoints]

Is this the correct pronunciation of his name? Another video pronounces the w as a w and this one pronounces it as a v.

[unknown_person]

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