Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
1632–1723
Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632–1723)
physicist · merchant · surveyor
Born in Delft
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Antonie van Leeuwenhoek:
- Isaac Newton (1643–1727)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
- Voltaire (1694–1778)
- René Descartes (1596–1650)
- Molière (1622–1673)
- Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
- Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778)
- John Locke (1632–1704)
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