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Word: leeuwenhoek (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), Dutch shopkeeper, amateur naturalist, microscope maker, the first human being to see microbes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Good Reading | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

...magnificent instrument. In view of future developments, however, it has to be admitted at the same time, that with respect to its lenses in their present state, no more favorable comparison can be made than with the microscope as it was at the time of Leeuwenhoek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 4, 1943 | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

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