#Curiosity begets #inquiry. And in our story, it’s about the people who were curious enough to look. 🧐⠀ ⠀ Anton von #Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) is known as the Father of #Microbiology. A cloth merchant and amateur lensmaker with no fortune, no higher education, but an unquenchable thirst for #science, he broke free from convention to make some of the most important discoveries in scientific history. In 1674, he became the first person to ever see living #microbes.⠀ ⠀ Leeuwenhoek’s experiments with lens-making and #microscopy function led to many designs of his own, dramatic and powerful advancements over existing iterations. His microscopes had lenses grinded down and polished to just a millimeter thick and could could magnify clearly up to 275x, where even compound microscopes already invented at the time could only reach 20x.⠀ ⠀ In 1674, Leeuwenhoek had the strange idea to put #water💧from a nearby lake under his #microscope 🔬 and #eureka! He discovered the droplet was teeming with #l...