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We owe the discovery of bacteria to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, "the Father of Microbiology".

Van Leeuwenhoek’s life is a great a scientific rags to riches story.

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The Gregorian correction of the Julian Calendar was not made simul- taneously in England and the Netherlands, and during Leeuwenhoek's.

Born in Delft, Holland, in 1632, he came from a family of basket makers and would end up as a fabric merchant. He received no higher education and spoke no language but Dutch. The latter, in particular, would have excluded him from the science of his time; most scientific texts were written in Latin or German.

However freedom from the contemporary scientific dogma coupled to an insatiable curiosity proved to be a dynamite combination. Not only did he discover bacteria (what he called “animalcules”), he also discovered, among many other things, blood cells, sperm cells and microscopic nematodes (worms).

Microscopic monopoly
One of the original explorers of the microscopic world, van Leeuwenhoek used homemade microscopes to investigate the world around him.

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