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Science had just emerged as a profession, yet it was a self-taught textile merchant who became one of the greatest scientific celebrities in all of Europe.<\/p>\n

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This is Anton van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch merchant who, in the late 17th century, discovered microscopic life.<\/p>\n

Without a university education, Leeuwenhoek became the first human to observe single-celled organisms, bacteria, red blood cells, and sperm using his homemade microscopes and an insatiable curiosity as his only tools.<\/p>\n