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They observe the giants (including Galileo, Leeuwenhoek, and Marie Curie), ask questions, formulate hypotheses, and direct their inquiry toward discovery. Some 300 years ago, microscope inventor Antony van Leeuwenhoek stunned the world when he became the first to observe "animalcules" that were "very prettily a-moving" in human saliva and other excretions. Chapter One is about Antony van Leeuwenhoek and his fascination with studying things under his homemade microscopes. |
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