Abstract
Abstract Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632’1723) described the invisible world of little animals in more than 200 letters he sent to the Royal Society of London beginning in 1674. He was not an educated man. His father was a maker of the wicker baskets used to transport the fine wares produced in Delft. Antony had spent six years in Amsterdam working in a linen-drapery shop as an apprentice to a cloth merchant; he became bookkeeper and cashier before returning to his native Delft when he was 22 years old. In 1666, the city appointed him Chamberlain to the Council Chamber of the Sheriffs of Delft, a position that offered him a permanent source of income and allowed him to concentrate on his microscopic observations. His marriage in 1671 to Cornelia Swamis (daughter of a merchant who dealt in serge) brought him into association with a more intellectual group.
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