Antoni van Leeuwenhoek – en de ontdekking van het leven

The discovery of the microworld sets the 17th century scholarly world on fire. Old truths perish, tempers heat up, and many a soul is distressed when even religious certainties are shaken. The former textile trader Antoni van Leeuwenhoek ignores it all. Uninhibited, and driven only by curiosity and the enormous pleasure that his microscope offers him, the Delft resident surprises science with an endless stream of astonishing observations. But what was his secret?

(only available in Dutch)