“Before six beats of the pulse had intervened,” as he later wrote to the Royal Society of London, Leeuwenhoek was examining his perishable sample through a tiny magnifying glass. He’d had five children already by his first wife (though four had died in infancy), and fatherhood was not on his mind. Cloth was Leeuwenhoek’s business but microscopy his passion. One day in Delft, Dutch Republic, in the fall of 1677, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, a cloth merchant who is said to have been the long-haired model for two paintings by Johannes Vermeer-“The Astronomer” and “The Geographer”-abruptly stopped what he was doing with his wife and rushed to his worktable. This story was published in the January 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine.
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