Seeing the Invisible: van Leeuwenhoek’s first glimpses of the microbial world

También disponible con narración en español: In 1674, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked at a drop of lake water through his homemade microscope and discovered an invisible world that no one knew existed. His work inspired countless microbiology researchers, including HHMI investigator Bonnie Bassler, one of the narrators of this animated feature. Leeuwenhoek was a haberdasher and city official in Delf, The started making simple microscopes and using them to observe t
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