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Levenson (Money for Nothing), who teaches science writing at MIT, recounts the history of germ theory in this work. He starts with Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch draper who, in 1676, constructed his own microscopes and thence discovered a previously unknown world of living organisms. Van Leeuwenhoek's discoveries suggested that tiny microorganisms could cause disease and infection, but this notion went against accepted religious doctrine....Log In or Sign Up to Read More