# @seed on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg18KkjH040
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34248005-seed-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2018-03-27T22:06:20.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Seed (@seed) — https://gondola.cc/seed

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#Curiosity begets #inquiry. And in our story, it’s about the people who were curious enough to look. 🧐⠀
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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.⠀
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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.⠀
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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 #life—“little eels, or worms, lying all huddled up together and wriggling... the whole water seemed to be alive with these multifarious #animalcules.”⠀
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Leeuwenhoek was also the first to observe #human microbes, from #food particles scraped from between his #teeth 😬 (the plaque dentists ask us to floss away). He is credited with the #discovery of #protists, sperm #cells, blood cells, nematodes, and more. The original ‘#moonwalker’ of the #microbiome, the first to gaze upon their invisible dance and forever change the field of science, he ushered in the unseen microbial world.

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microbes, cells, moonwalker, leeuwenhoek, human, microbiology, protists, curiosity, teeth, microscopy, science, eureka, life, discovery, microscope, food, animalcules, microbiome, inquiry, water

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