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AP European History
Unit 4 – Scientific, Philosophical, and Political Developments
Topic 4.7
How did Antonie van Leeuwenhoek’s discovery and documentation of microorganisms impact long-term understanding about infectious diseases?
His investigations were largely ignored until twentieth century.
It led directly to development and widespread use antibiotics by end seventeenth century.
His research immediately eradicated majority diseases across Europe.
His findings laid groundwork for germ theory which revolutionized medicine centuries later.
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