Geological Chronicle
Situated in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon, Leeuwenhoek spans 125 kilometers in diameter east of the crater Birkeland and the double crater Van de Graaff. Named after Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, the impact crater lies north of the large walled plain Leibnitz and southwest of Orlov.
Dating to the Nectarian period on the lunar geologic timescale, the crater has a worn and eroded outer rim that forms an irregular mountainous ring around its relatively level interior floor. Its inner wall is wider along the western and southern sides, offsetting the floor to the northeast, where Leeuwenhoek partly overlaps the satellite crater Leeuwenhoek E.
At the midpoint of the interior floor is a central peak formation. The floor also contains a pair of small craterlets alongside several tiny craters.