article_snippet.sent: The behaviour of Dutch natural scientist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was nothing if not eccentric.
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article_snippet.sent: Dutch natural scientist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek rubbed down Dutch natural scientist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek legs with ice, then took up Dutch natural scientist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek pen to calculate the louse’s reproduction rate.
article_snippet.sent: While Leeuwenhoeck was thus engaged, another great Dutchman, Johannes Vermeer, was intent on Dutch natural scientist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek own more genteel studies in Dutch natural scientist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek house on the opposite side of Delft’s market square.
article_snippet.sent: the subject of Laura J. Snyder’s new biography asks an intriguing question: could Vermeer and Leeuwenhoek, who were born in the same week, lived and worked Vermeer and Leeuwenhoek, who were born in the same week entire lives in an area not much larger than a football pitch, and who had friends in common, have exchanged ideas and inspired each other’s work?
article_snippet.sent: Leeuwenhoek’s collection included the eye of a whale, pickled in brandy.
article_snippet.sent: ‘What I investigate is only what, without sinfully defiling Leeuwenhoeck, remains as a residue of conjugal coitus.
article_snippet.sent: Yet I was left more eager to peer down the lens at one of Leeuwenhoek’s slides, than to stand before even the most pellucid of Vermeer’s exquisite paintings.
highlights_snippet.sent: Could Vermeer and 41 van Leeuwenhoek have inspired each other’s work?