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Christiaan Huygens |
July 8, 1695 |
friend and colleague |
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Galileo |
January 8, 1642 |
predecessor who was using a double-lens microscope decades before Leeuwenhoek was born |
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Hans Lippershey |
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countryman who has a good claim to have invented the microscope |
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Johan Ham |
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"best capable" scientific colleague |
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Johannes Hudde |
April 15, 1704 |
fellow microscopist |
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Johannes Swammerdam |
February 17, 1680 |
colleague from Amsterdam who visited but found him hard to reason with |
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Marcello Malpighi |
November 29, 1694 |
professional peer; they were aware of and reacted to each other's work |
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Nehemiah Grew |
March 25, 1712 |
professional colleague at the Royal Society; they wrote about each other's work |
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Nicolaas Hartsoeker |
December 10, 1725 |
rival over the discovery of sperm |
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Robert Hooke |
March 3, 1703 |
most important supporter |
