Question from the Netherlands

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• Former Member Posts: 1,876,324 The Mix Honorary Guru

  February 2012

  zyennox wrote: »

  Hi
  I am a student from the Netherlands and I'm doing research about the fame of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and for this I need your help. I am wondering how famous he is. So I have a few (just 2 actually) questions for you:
  
  1. Do you know who Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is?
  2. Do you know where he is from?
  
  Just reply, even if you don't know anything.
  Thank you in advance.

  
  1. No
  2. No

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• Former Member Posts: 1,876,324 The Mix Honorary Guru

  February 2012

  Now part of me wants to say he did work with early (the first?) microscopes (or pieces of glass he made like a telescope) and that he was the first person to see a cell down one. I believe (also using his name to help) he was probably from Holland. If that's not what he did, not a clue!
  
  edit: just looked at Wikipedia. Three years of studying microbiology paid of. Oh yeah!

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• Former Member Posts: 1,876,324 The Mix Honorary Guru

  February 2012

  Hey zyennox - it's best to get permission from a mod before you post surveys for research, I'll let it stay up though as it seems pretty harmless
  
  And hey.. my answers would be.
  
  1. No
  2. No

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• Former Member Posts: 1,876,324 The Mix Honorary Guru

  February 2012

  Yeah, roughly. I think he was from Holland, made early microscopes. was he a tradesman/merchant rather than a scientist?

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