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Roosevelt ESD on X: "#ScienceFunFact The first person to see a live cell with a microscope was Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, in 1674. https://t.co/5QxyLPkfFC" / X
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The 17th-century cloth merchant who discovered the vast realm of tiny microbes – an appreciation of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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