Animated Life: Seeing the invisible

This short, animated film is part of the Animated Life series by The New York Times. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was an amateur scientist who in the 16^th century developed new kinds of microscopes that where far superior to the ones that already existed. He didn’t share them though, preferring to just provide his findings to other scientists. With his microscopes he became the father of microbiology and he discovered many microscopic forms of life, including sperm and bacteria. Here his story is being told with appealing cut-outs as well as hypnotically animated movements of small lifeforms.