Editing Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (section)

==Sources==
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* {{cite book |author-link=Clifford Dobell |last=Dobell |first=Clifford |orig-year=1932 |location=New York |title=Antony van Leeuwenhoek and His "Little Animals": being some account of the father of protozoology and bacteriology and his multifarious discoveries in these disciplines |publisher=[[Harcourt (publisher)|Harcourt, Brace and Company]] |url=https://archive.org/details/antonyvanleeuwen00dobe |year=1960 |edition=[[Dover Publications]]}}
* {{cite book |last=Ford |first=Brian J. |title=The Leeuwenhoek Legacy |location=Bristol and London |publisher=Biopress and Farrand Press |date=1991}}
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* {{cite book |last=Huerta |first=Robert |publisher=[[Bucknell University Press]] |date=2003 |location=Pennsylvania |title=Giants of Delft: Johannes Vermeer and the Natural Philosophers: The Parallel Search for Knowledge during the Age of Discovery}}
* {{cite web| ref=Moll| last1=Moll| first1=Warnar| title=Antonie van Leeuwenhoek| url=http://www.euronet.nl/users/warnar/leeuwenhoek.html| website=Onderzoeksportal [Research Portal]|publisher=University of Amsterdam| access-date=3 March 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040218065849/http://www.euronet.nl/users/warnar/leeuwenhoek.html#bloodless| archive-date=18 February 2004|year=2003| quote=[Referring to [[#Valk|Valk (1745)]]] Indeed, in this publication "Geneeskundig Verhaal van de Algemeene Loop-ziekte..." the author uses the work of Leeuwenhoek in describing the disease, draws some (preliminary) conclusions about the cause of the disease, he warns "non-believers of Van Leeuwenhoek to use a magnifying glass" and gives commentaries on the work of Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek and his findings.}}
* {{cite book |last=Payne |first=Alma Smith |title=The Cleere Observer: A biography of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek |publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]] |location=London |date=1970}}
* Ratcliff, Marc J.: ''The Quest for the Invisible: Microscopy in the Enlightenment''. (Ashgate, 2009, 332 pp)
* Robertson, Lesley; Backer, Jantien et al.: ''Antoni van Leeuwenhoek: Master of the Minuscule''. (Brill, 2016, {{ISBN|978-9004304284}})
* {{cite book |last=Ruestow |first=Edward G |title=The Microscope in the Dutch Republic: The Shaping of Discovery |location=New York |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |date=1996}}
* {{cite book |last=Snyder |first=Laura J. |author-link=Laura J. Snyder |date=2015 |title=Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing |location=New York |publisher=[[W. W. Norton & Company]] }}
* Struik, Dirk J.: ''The Land of Stevin and Huygens: A Sketch of Science and Technology in the Dutch Republic during the Golden Century (Studies in the History of Modern Science)''.  (Springer, 1981, 208 pp)
* {{cite book| ref=Valk| last1=Valk| first1=Evert| title=Een geneeskundig verhaal van de algemeene loop-ziekte, die te Kampen en in de om-geleegene streeken heeft gewoed in 't jaar 1736 neevens een werktuigkunstige, en natuurkundige beschryvinge van de oorzaak, uitwerking en genezinge waar in word aan-getoond, dat dezelve, waarschynlyk, door bloed-loose diertjes, beschreven in de werken van Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, het werd te weeg gebragt, en door kwik voor-naamentlyk, uit-geroeid| trans-title=A work on a disease in the city of Kampen in 1736 caused by "little animals". These bloodless animals are most likely the little animals described in the work of Leeuwenhoek and they can be killed by treatment of mercury| date=1745|publisher=Van der Vinne| location=Haarlem| page=97| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CEVcAAAAcAAJ&q=evert+valk+Kundig| access-date=3 March 2016| language=nl}}
* Wilson, Catherine: ''The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope''. (Princeton University Press, 1997, {{ISBN|978-0691017099}})
* {{cite book|last=de Kruif|first=Paul|author-link=Paul de Kruif|date=1926|pages=3–24|title=Microbe Hunters|chapter=I Leeuwenhoek: First of the Microbe Hunters|series=Blue Ribbon Books|publisher=Harcourt Brace & Company Inc.|location=New York|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.221187/page/n3/mode/2up|access-date=14 October 2020}}