A review by shighley
All in a Drop: How Antony Van Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible World by Lori Alexander

5.0

This book is so well done; I understand why it was a Sibert Honor book. As a science teacher, I had mentioned van Leeuwenhoek, and had students do reports on him, but I felt this did a much better job of examining his personality and the factors that led to his success. To think that in those times, he lived to be 90! The information is well documented; I even looked up Hooke's Micrographia and found many of the mentioned illustrations here. https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/micrographia-by-robert-hooke-1665