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Optics: glass tubes (right) and Leeuwenhoek's first microscope (left) Photograph.

Antonius van Leeuwenhoek. Line engraving by Anker Smith after J. Verkolje, 1695.

Antonius van Leeuwenhoek. Mezzotint by J. Verkolje, 1686.

Leeuwenhoek with his microscope. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

Antonius van Leeuwenhoek. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1813, after J. Verkolje.

Antony van Leeuwenhoek and his "little animals" : being some account of the father of protozoology and bacteriology and his multifarious discoveries in these discliplines / collected, translated, and edited, from his printed works, unpublished manuscripts, and contemporary records by Clifford Dobell.

Antonius van Leeuwenhoek. Line engraving by A. de Blois after J. Verkolje.

The cleere observer: a biography of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek / Alma Smith Payne ; illustrated by Charles Pickard.

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, 1632-1723 : l'exercice du regard / par Philippe Boutibonnes.

Giants of Delft : Johannes Vermeer and the natural philosophers : the parallel search for knowledge during the age of discovery / Robert D. Huerta.

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) : le microscope médical et les spermatozoïdes / Henri Lamendin ; [avec Xavier Riaud] ; préface du Xavier Riaud.

Anatomia seu interiora rerum, cum animatarum, tum inanimatarum, ope & beneficio exquisitissimorum microscopiorum detecta, variisque experimentis demonstrata. Una cum discursu & ulteriore dilucidatione epistolis quibusdam ad ... philosophorum collegium datis comprehensa ... / [Antoni van Leeuwenhoek].

Vervolg der brieven / geschreven aan de wytvermaarde Koninglijke Societeit in Londen.

Arcana naturae detecta / Ab Antonio van Leeuwenhoek.

Arcana naturae, ope & beneficio exquistissimorum microscopiorum detecta / [Antoni van Leeuwenhoek].

Epistolae physiologicae super compluribus naturae arcanis; ubi variorum animalium atque plantarum fabrica, conformatio, proprietates atque operationes, novis ... / experimentis illustrantur ... hactenus numquam editae.

Opera omnia [Vol. I], seu arcana naturae, ope exactissimorum microscopiorum detecta, experimentis variis comprobata, epistolis, ad ... illustres viros, ut et ad integram, quae Londini floret, Sapientem Societatem ... datis, comprehensa ... / [Antoni van Leeuwenhoek].

Ontledingen en ontdekkingen van de Cinnaber naturalis, en bus-poeder; van het maaksel van been en huyd, etc / [Antoni van Leeuwenhoek].

Ontledingen en ontdekkingen van levende dierkens in de teel-deelen van verscheyde dieren, vogelen en visschen; van het hout met der selver menigvuldige vaaten, etc / [Antoni van Leeuwenhoek].

Vierde vervolg der brieven / geschreven aan de wytvermaarde Koninkljke Societeyt in London.

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Arcana naturae detecta / Ab Antonio van Leeuwenhoek.

Ontledingen en ontdekkingen van de Cinnaber naturalis, en bus-poeder; van het maaksel van been en huyd, etc / [Antoni van Leeuwenhoek].

Opera omnia [Vol. I], seu arcana naturae, ope exactissimorum microscopiorum detecta, experimentis variis comprobata, epistolis, ad ... illustres viros, ut et ad integram, quae Londini floret, Sapientem Societatem ... datis, comprehensa ... / [Antoni van Leeuwenhoek].

Ontledingen en ontdekkingen van levende dierkens in de teel-deelen van verscheyde dieren, vogelen en visschen; van het hout met der selver menigvuldige vaaten, etc / [Antoni van Leeuwenhoek].

Vierde vervolg der brieven / geschreven aan de wytvermaarde Koninkljke Societeyt in London.