Very interesting and this bit made me chuckle inside: > "We may now assume that van Leeuwenhoek's silence was a deliberate choice," the authors wrote. "Van Lee

Very interesting and this bit made me chuckle inside: > "We may now assume that van Leeuwenhoek's silence was a deliberate choice," the authors wrote. "Van Leeuwenhoek adopted the very lens-making procedure by Hooke soon after he published it, and brought it to a great success but never told anyone about it. This is ironic, as Hooke always wanted to find out the secret of van Leeuwenhoek's lenses but never managed to do so." It seems that while we made great technological leaps, humans have not changed one bit ;-)