van Zuylen J
J Microsc. 1981 Mar;121(Pt 3):309-28. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.1981.tb01227.x.
The seventeenth-century Dutch microscopist, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, was the first man to make a protracted study of microscopical objects, and, unlike his contemporary Robert Hooke, he viewed by transmitted light. Leeuwenhoek made over 500 of his own, curious, simple microscopes, but now only nine are known to exist. The exact nature of the lenses Leeuwenhoek made, has for long been a puzzle. The existing microscopes have now been examined in detail, and their optical characteristics measured and tabulated. It is proposed that the lens of highest magnification, x 266, was made using a special blown bubble technique.
17世纪的荷兰显微镜学家安东尼·范·列文虎克是第一个对微观物体进行长期研究的人，与他同时代的罗伯特·胡克不同，他通过透射光进行观察。列文虎克制作了500多台他自己发明的、奇特而简单的显微镜，但如今已知仅存9台。长期以来，列文虎克所制透镜的确切性质一直是个谜。现已对现存的显微镜进行了详细检查，并测量了它们的光学特性并制成表格。有人提出，放大倍数最高达266倍的透镜是采用一种特殊的吹泡技术制作的。
