When the Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant Abel Tasman set sail in 1642 under instructions from the Dutch East India Company, what places (as they are now known) did he record as having visited and having been the first European to do so?
Which Dutch fabric merchant, surveyor, wine assayer, and minor city official, learned to grind lenses for simple microscopes and discovered bacteria, free-living and parasitic microscopic protists, sperm cells, blood cells and microscopic nematodes?
