How did Anton van leeuwenhoek infulence the enlightenment?

Answer 1

Here are four good examples (I just put them on my homework):

• He was inspired by the glasses used by drapers to inspect the quality of cloth and taught himself new methods for grinding and polishing tiny lenses of great curvature which gave magnifications up to 270x diameters, the finest known at that time
• He was the first to see and describe bacteria in 1674, yeast plants, the teeming life in a drop of water, and the circulation of blood corpuscles in capillaries with a microscope
• He used his lenses to make pioneer studies on an extraordinary variety of things, both living and non-living, and reported his findings in over a hundred letters to the Royal Society of England and the French Academy
• None of Anton Van Leeuwenhoek's microscopes exist today because his instruments were made of gold and silver and were sold by his family after he died; none have been recovered

-P.A.