In hopes of seeing why a peppercorn tastes peppery, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek ... the first bacteria ever observed. Van Leeuwenhoek, aka the father of microbiology, glimpsed a world in the 17th ...

Advances in microbiology are largely driven by ... The microscopic world became visible with Antonie van Leeuwenhoek's improved lenses; he revealed a new world filled with 'animalcules', single ...

In the 17th century, a Dutch merchant named Antony van Leeuwenhoek began experimenting ... into a previously-hidden realm—far wilder than anything van Leeuwenhoek, known as the “father of microbiology ...

Late 1600s – Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek constructed a microscope with a single spherical lens. It magnified up to ×275. 1800s - the optical quality of lenses increased and the ...