Antonie+Van+Leeuwenhoek

= __//**ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK**//__ =

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**BACKGROUND:**
===Antonie was born on October 24, 1632 in Delft, Holland. Antonie died on August 26, 1723 in Delft, Holland. He was buried 4 days later on August 30, 1723. ===

**CHILDHOOD**:
===He was educated in the town of Warmond. Then he lived in Benthuizen with his uncle while he was there he was apprenticed in a linen-draper's shop in 1648. In 1654, he went back to Delft, where he spend the rest of his life. He started a draper business and is also know to be a surveyor, a wine assayer, and a minor city official. In 1668, he start to fiddle around with grind lenses, made a simple microscope and started observing things with it. ===

** ACHIEVEMENTS: **
===Antonie created 500 kinds of microscopes and discovered:bacteria, protists, sperm cells, blood cells, microscopic nematodes, rotifers, and foruminifera. ===

**INFLUENCE ON THE WORLD:**
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek made advances in the world of science, anatomy, microbiology. He helped us understand our bodies a little bit better.

=media type="youtube" key="_D5Gu_9hEus" height="315" width="420" = =This is Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek. =

=This is one of the microscopes he made. =