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Facts

Baptized February 12, 1637 • Amsterdam • Netherlands
Died February 15, 1680 • Amsterdam • Netherlands
Notable Works “A General History of Insects” • “Bible of Nature”
Subjects Of Study insect • Swammerdam valve • life cycle • red blood cell • microscope

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Oil painting by Jan Verkolje showing Antonie van Leeuwenhoek seated at a table with a globe, papers, inkstand, and a compass in hand, wearing a brown robe and white shirt.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist
Lyonnet, detail of an oil painting by Hendrik van Limborch, 1742; in a private collection
Pierre Lyonnet
Dutch naturalist and engraver
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
Bates, H.W.
H.W. Bates
British naturalist and explorer
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Edward Fred Knipling
American entomologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Louis Agassiz
Louis Agassiz
Swiss-born American naturalist, geologist, and teacher
E.O. Wilson
E.O. Wilson
American biologist
Buffon, engraving by C. Baron after Drouais, 1761.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, count de Buffon
French naturalist
Marcello Malpighi
Marcello Malpighi
Italian scientist
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
Sloane, detail of an oil painting by S. Slaughter, 1736; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet
British physician
John James Audubon
John James Audubon
ornithologist, artist, and naturalist
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Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Anna Botsford Comstock.
Anna Botsford Comstock
American illustrator and writer
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Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
German biologist
Sir Joseph Banks, engraving by Ridley, 1802
Sir Joseph Banks
British naturalist
Aldrovandi, Ulisse
Ulisse Aldrovandi
Italian naturalist

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