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Antoni was a tradesman and scientist from Delft, in the Netherlands.
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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was born in Delft, Holland.
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Antoni moved away from Delft to get an appreticeship as a linen draper.
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Antoni moved back to Delft and started a drapery buisness.
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Antoni married Barbara de Mey when he was 21 and she was 24.
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Antoni had three sons and two daughters but, Marie is the only child that lived. She was born in 1656. The rest all died in infancy.
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Antoni sent a letter to the English Royal Society explaining what you can see while looking through a microscope.
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Antoni's wife (Barbara de Mey) died in 1666 leaving him alone after 12 years of marriage.
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Antoni married Cornelia Swalmius in 1671. She is a relative of Barbara's.
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Antoni wrote notes about bee's and they were so interesting that they were published in the Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society. These notes included a description of fungal spores, a common louse (head and body of an insect), and the stinger, mouth, and eye of a bee.
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Antoni took samples of lake water that were murky and had green clouds.He then dicovered all of the tiny creatures that lived in dirty water.
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Antoni started looking for small living creatures because of his discovery in 1674 which made him wonder if these creatures were in well and clean water. After 2 years, Antoni claimed that he saw tiny living "animalcules" swimming in rain water. He estimated that 1,000 of these tiny creatures could fit on the end of a pen.
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The English Royal Society elected him to a membership because of his 400 letters explaining different discoveries.
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Antoni turned his microscopes on the tail of a tadpole and saw the tiny capillaries connecting the veins and the arteries.
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Antoni died on August 30, 1732. He was 91 years old!
