[Video] Animated mini-documentary about Antoni van Leeuwenhoek by the New York Times
16 september 2014Illustration © 2014 New York Times / Flora Lichtman & Sharon Shattuck (Sweet Fern Productions)
In 1674, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked at a drop of lake water through his homemade microscope and discovered an invisible world that no one knew existed. He was an unlikely pioneer — a haberdasher and city official by trade. In this film, we celebrate this 17th-century citizen scientist and a discovery that would ultimately change our view of the biological world, and our place in it.