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ANTON VAN LEEUWENHOEK

ANTON VAN LEEUWENHOEK (1632-1673), an early microscopist, born at Delft; the instrument he used was of his own construction, but it was the means of his arriving at important discoveries, one of the most so that of capillary circulation; stoutly opposed the theory of spontaneous generation.


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