biography
| name: |
Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van
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pronunciation:
[layvenhook]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1632–1723)
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| biography:
| Microscopist, born in Delft, W Netherlands. A clerk in an Amsterdam cloth warehouse until 1650, he returned to Delft, where he made a series of discoveries in relation to the circulation of the blood. He also first detected the fibres of the crystalline lens, the fibrils and striping of muscle, the structure of ivory and hair, the scales of the epidermis, and the distinctive characters of rotifer micro-organisms. |
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