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Antony van Leeuwenhoek
Title: Antony van Leeuwenhoek
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 625 | Pages: 2.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Antony van Leeuwenhoek
The biologist I chose to report on is Antony van Leeuwenhoek. I
chose to report on him because he made many great microscopic
discoveries. Those discoveries include bacteria, free-living and
parasitic microscopic protist, sperm cells, blood cells, and many
more.
Leeuwenhoek was born on October 24, 1632, in Delft. His
mother’s family were brewers and his father was a basket-maker.
Antony was taught at Warmond and lived with his uncle in
Benthuizen. He got his first …showed first 75 words of 625 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 625 total…had they contracted their
bodies and tails, than began to stick their tails out again very
leisurely, and stayed thus some time continuing their gentle motion:
which sight found mightily diverting.”
After many discoveries and letters, in 1680, he was elected a full member
of the Royal Society, joining such great biologist and other scientist as Robert
Hooke, Henry Oldenberg, Robert Boyle, Christopher Wren, and many more. He
kept discovering organisms until August 30, 1723, at 90 years old.
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