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Anthony van Lewin amazes every man who has ever use the microscope to view animal organisms. Using his handcrafted microscopes, he was the first to observe and describe microorganisms, which he originally referred to as animalcules (from Latin animalculum = "tiny animal"). He was the first man to see blood corpuscles, protozoa, and spermatozoa; he is commonly known as "the Father of Microbiology", and often considered to be the first acknowledged microscopist and microbiologist. Van Leeuwenhoek is best known for his pioneering work in the field of microscopy and for his contributions toward the establishment of microbiology as a scientific discipline. This is the first book to treat extensively in accurately his life and works relating to protozoology and bacteriology. His writings reveal him. It rain water, pepper water, vinegar, ditchwater, frogs skin, sap, and almost everything else that he could look at through a lens. Lou and Hoch will be really interesting reading even to the nine specialists. He conveys the sense of enthusiastic, naïve genius sitting across from you and telling of the exciting world he sees for the first time. The first section of this volume is a history of his life, based on 25 years research by the author was a protest allergist to the medical research Council until his death in 1949. The second section deals with the little animals Lou and hook saw inconsistent great part of his own writings. The last section discusses Lou looks language, his microscope, his methods, and other historical and biographical items.

Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek, a quiet linen draper in Delft, has discovered a new world: the world of the little animals, or animalcules, that he sees through his simple microscopes. These tiny creatures are everywhere, even inside us. But who will believe him? Not his wife, not his neighbors, not his fellow merchants-- only his friend Reinier De Graaf, a medical doctor. Then he meets an itinerant goose girl at the market who lives surrounded by tiny, invisible voices. Are these the animalcules also? Leeuwenhoek and the girl form a curious alliance, and gradually the lives of the little animals infiltrate everything around them: Leeuwenhoek's cloth business, the art of his friend Johannes Vermeer, the nascent sex trade, and people's religious certainties. But Leeuwenhoek also needs to cement his reputation as a natural philosopher, and for that he needs the Royal Society of London-- a daunting challenge, indeed, for a Dutch draper who can't communicate in Latin. Ursula K. Le Guin wrote of The Little Animals, ''A vigorous, satisfying historical novel full of interesting and likable characters. To people who do truly unusual things, such as discover microscopic life, or paint Vermeer's pictures, or hear what plague bacilli are saying, these things are just what they do. Sarah Tolmie's novel catches this intersection of the everyday with the unearthly and holds it for us like a drop of pond water under the lens, vibrant with life and activity, fascinating in its strangeness and its familiarity.''