Leeuwenhoek's microscope Size:XS: 40 x 30cm to the Honourable Mr

to the Honourable Mr

but the offer was refused

Here he is shown next to his horse

25th February 1990 P29173

Leeuwenhoek's microscope Size:XS: 40 x 30cm to the Honourable MrSingle lens microscope, replica of an instrument by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek developed his own very strong microscopes. Each had a tiny single lens, but they could magnify up to 250 times. Van Leeuwenhoek investigated the structure of muscles and plants , the shapes of crystals in grains of sand and much more. He was the first to describe microscopic organisms living in water. We know them today as bacteria and protozoa. 17th