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Anton van Leeuwenhoek first saw cloth through a microscope. He was an apprentice to a merchant who sold cloth and the merchants used microscopes to inspect the threading and weave.

He later acquired a shop of his own and, of course, a microscope of his own for the purpose of looking at cloth. At some point, his interests went beyond his business and he learned to polish glass and make his own lenses. About 1670 he discovered a way to make how to make very small spherical lenses by melting glass which was fast and easy with little or no polishing since the surface tension of the glass beads made the smooth and spherical. This allowed much greater magnification, up to 250 times. (Some people think that me may have made lenses with magnifications almost twice that.)

After discovering the technique (which he kept secret) he saw many fantastic things, including microorganisms in water. The first thing he officially described in a letter to the Royal Society of London were his observations and drawings of the parts of a bee. Later, he described microorganisms.

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