It is the year 1670, unmagnified life remains a mystery. What is it made up of? Does it have any affect on humans? is there a deeper aspect besides what is obvious to us? unanswered questions hijacked the minds of the greatest thinkers of that time. Until a scientist know as Antonie van Leeuwenhoek made a ground breaking discovery, which later earned him the right to be crowned “The father of microbiology”. Antonie van Leuwenhoek (1632-1723) was a Dutch scientist and craftsman. He grew up as any ordinary child. Wedded to Barbara de Mey, who labored five children in which only one survived. Following her death Leeuwenhoek remarried Cornella Swalmius which had no offspring’s. Interested in lens making and glass handling yielded an extraordinary
