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He excelled at lens grinding (since he was a cloth weaver) and achieved magnifications up to 500 times life-size. This is what he used to look at a drop of pond water. He was surprised to see it full of moving life. No one knows why he decided to look at the drop of water and he also made many drawings of what he found.

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