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- 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)
How To Use Leeuwenhoek In A Sentence
- At other times, it seems, Drebbel made and used single-lens microscopes of high magnification, comparable to Leeuwenhoek's.
- The eventual tally will depend on the choicesindividual couples make when they engage in that most intimate of human acts, the one Leeuwenhoek interrupted so carelessly for the sake of science.
- Leeuwenhoek made groundbreaking observations in andrology by describing spermatozoa.
- Leeuwenhoek tried ingenious ways to estimate the size of his animalcules.
- Looking at these samples with his microscope, Leeuwenhoek reported how in his own mouth: ‘I then most always saw, with great wonder, that in the said matter there were many very little living animalcules, very prettily a-moving.’
- Though still relying upon single lenses, Leeuwenhoek's unparalleled grinding skill produced microscopes of very high power, with magnifications ranging to 500 power.
- They often relied on the samemethod Leeuwenhoek used for his studies: withdrawal, or coitus interruptus.
- The moment Van Leeuwenhoek gazed into his pond water was the moment that microbiology was born.
- After several historical examples of the scientific literary tradition (Voltaire on smallpox inoculations; Anton van Leeuwenhoek on spirogyra; Huxley’s public lecture - “On a Piece of Chalk”; Darwin), McEwan turns to Dawkins. McEwan On A Scientific Literary Tradition
- In 1683, Leeuwenhoek presented another famous communication on bacteria found in saliva and tooth scrapings from his mouth.