Antons+Discoveries

Discoveries
 * Anton had discovered "protozoa" the single-celled organisms. he had called them "animalcules".
 * He had improved the microscope.
 * He had been the first person to see bacteria and he had done much of his discoveries on them.
 * He provided the clear descriptions of bacteria, when he took plaque from his teeth and mixed it in water and looked through his microscope and called them " many very little living animalcules."
 * He found that these were killed when he drank hot coffee.
 * His best surviving microscope magnified objects 270 times thier actual size.
 * He descovered pepsin.
 * He made special microscopes to observe the flow of blood in things such as: rabbits' ears, bats' wings, and tadpoles' tails.
 * He had focused his 300-power micrscopes on blood, sweat, tears, spit, spices, semen, vinger, tooth tartar, bees' eyes, flea heads, feathers, hair, and anythin else he could slice.
 * 1673- He was known for his contributions towards the establishment of microbiology.
 * was the first to record microscopic odservations of muscle fibers, bacteria, spermatozoa;sperm.
 * 1674- The moving objects he viewed through his microscope were tiny animals.
 * He became the first person to correctly describe red blood cells.
 * He discovered __infusoria__;is defined as protozans of the phylum __Cilophora(or class Ciliata)__;class of protozoa having cilia or hairlike appendages on all of the surface duringsome part of the life cycle.
 * 1676- He wrote appromiximately 30 letters to the Royal Society in London, the leading scientific society at the time, in which he described several types of these microorganisms, which he called animalcules which are now known as bacteria, protozoa, and rotifers.
 * 1680- Leeuwenhoek was elected a member of the Royal Society.
 * 1696- He became famous all over Europe, when asked to demonstrated circulation of the blood in an eel before Peter the Great of Russia, and was visited by Queen Anne of England.