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feb 28, 1673 - Antony Van Leeuwenhoek

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Antony is the first to successfully create his own microscope and use it. He used this microscope to look at organisms in a pond, this later led him calling what we call today bacteria, animalcules. He then shared his discoveries with a man named Robert Hooke.

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feb 28, 1673
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~ 352 years ago

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