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The Dirty Secret behind Some of the World's Earliest Microscopes

May 26, 20214 min
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Episode description

Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek made extraordinary observations of blood cells, sperm cells and bacteria with his microscopes. But it turns out the lens technology he used was quite ordinary.

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