Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, a 17th-century cloth merchant, is the father of microbiology. He discovered protists and bacteria using his own single-lens microscopes, which hit 270x magnification through a secret…


Antonie van Leeuwenhoek era un commerciante olandese e scienziato autodidatta che aprì gli occhi dell'umanità al mondo microscopico.