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No At first microscopes were more of a fun toy

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than an instrument of science But then a guy named

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antonie van leeuwenhoek came into the picture What did antoni

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do That was so great Well he said wait can

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do science with these thingamajigs You know he said it

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in dutch but leaving here actually ended up being the

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father of modern microbiology Of course a lot of props

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have to go to robert hooke the english scientists who

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among other things wrote a book called micro graphia which

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most likely inspired new in here to pay attention to

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little things Leaving here first published studies on the mouth

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parts of bees bee stings life and fungus and royal

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society in england was impressed and invited this dutchman to

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join their club Later antoni really hit on something when

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he found microscopic bacteria swimming around in water Royal society

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was skeptical about this one probably because nobody wants to

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think about the billions of unseen squirmy things aiming in

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the water they drink But once robert hooke verified urine

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hicks findings they were forced to face facts nearing hooks

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Discoveries didn't stop there He also identified the existence of

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blood cells the existence of microscopic nematodes and the structures

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of wood and crystals Either he was super motivated or

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he didn't have much of a social life or you

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know maybe both leave unhook also discovered how life is

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made and he didn't even need to have an awkward

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talk with his parents in a store you figured out

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conception when he identified sperm and came up with the

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idea that organisms are conceived when sperm it'd zoo in

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fertilizes an egg you unhook along with robert hooke changed

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people's minds about a lot of things Take germ theory

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well before microscope People had literally no idea how diseases

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and illnesses work attracted medieval doctors believed in four humors

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that had to be kept in balance Later they decided

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sickness was caused by me asthma's for bad air But

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microscopes reveal hundreds of thousands of microorganisms happily squishing around

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in everything from drinking water to food toe blood And

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they were using them as their own personal buffets Appetizing

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we'll sell theory was a major step forward to cells

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are the basic structures that make up every single living

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thing on the planet And we had no idea they

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existed until the invention of the microscope or robert hooke

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was technically the first dude to identify cells It happened

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when he was looking at it tiny piece of cork

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under a microscope and notice that it was cut into

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tiny circular things Spoiler alert was looking at the dead

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walls of plant cells and of course there was reproductive

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theory Before leeuwenhoek figured out the birds and the bees

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people believed all kinds of random things in general The

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idea was that the entire fetus came from the dude

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and ladies were just a walking talking for the baby

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Yeah well then there was the idea that sperm or

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actually tiny complete humans that were just too small to

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see and don't even get us started on the history

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of pregnancy test which is long and bizarre Here's a

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fun one though ancient egyptians used to have women pee

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on a bag of weed and a bag of barley

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If the wheat sprouted the baby was a girl If

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the barley sprouted it was a boy and if neither

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sprouted the mom and dad hopefuls had to go back 00:03:34.68 --> [endTime] to the drawing board the bedroom anyway

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