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Leeuwenhoek was not a

scientist. What was his job, and
what led to his invention of a
better microscope?

User CLaRGe
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Pretty sure he was a textile merchant and then was using a magnifying glass for his job. That then lead to him creating the single lensed microscope to look at bacteria and Protozoa!
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