ANTONY, a celebrated Dutch philosopher, was born at Delft in 1632, and acquired an extensive reputation all over Europe, by means of his discoveries and experiments in natural history, which were made by him with the microscope. He particularly excelled in making glasses for microscopes and spectacles; and he was a member of most of the literary societies of Europe, to which he sent a number of valuable memoirs. Those in the Philosophical Transactions and in the Paris Memoirs, extend through many volumes; the former were extracted and published at Leyden, in 1722. He died in 1723, at 91 years of age.