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nov 8, 1183 BC - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and the discovery of microbes

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Leeuwenhoek was the first person to both invent a microscope and view microbes in it. He took a sample from his mouth and viewed it under his prototype microscope, to view bacterium.

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nov 8, 1183 BC
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~ 3211 years ago