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Microscopes & Studying Viruses & Bacteria
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek lived for most of his long life (1632 to 1723) in the small town of Delft in Holland. He was a businessman and had a shop that sold curtains and material for furniture. In the early 1670s, he started to make lenses so that he could better see the quality of thread. In other words, his interest in microscopy was professional and commercial. But that was just the start. Those lenses were the beginning of a remarkable journey into the world of microscopic organisms.
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