Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek

By - Yount, Lisa

Floor - Floor 2

ISBN 10 - 0894906801

ISBN 13 - 9780894906800

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Netherlands

Shelf No - 5

Call Number - 578.092 YOU

Physical Description - 128 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Notes - Includes Index

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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was the first human being to see single-celled life. Author Lisa Yount details the life and work of this cloth merchant who used a microscope he made for himself to peer into a world no one had known existed. His greatest finds are the little animals he discovered that he called animalcules. An informative and inspiring story, it is sure to be of interest to science and biography fans.

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