Henry Baker drew this illustration of van Leeuwenhoek's microscopes in 1756. __1683: __Anton van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to Britain's Royal Society describing the "animalcules" he observed under ...
We all did it. Sometime during our junior high school science class, the microscope came out and glass slides were created ...
Great article giving great insight to what he actually did. Often there were not such irreplaceable secrets in antiquity that we can’t equal in the same or other ways. This should be obvious because ...
Today is Monday, Oct. 24, the 297th day of 2005 with 68 to follow. Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek (in Dutch also Anthonie, Antoni, or Theunis, in English, Antony or ...
Who needs fancy electron microscopes when you’ve got the simple but ingenious hand-held microscope through which microbes were seen for the first time almost 340 years ago. These pictures – of the ...
On September 7, 1674, Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, a fabric seller living just south of The Hague, Netherlands, burst forth from scientific obscurity with a letter to London’s Royal Society detailing an ...
On a quiet street in Delft in the 17th century, a draper bent over a piece of fabric with a magnifying glass. He was not a scholar in a grand university or a man with a patron's purse. He was a ...
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Now I am curious about how you grind a lens! https://lensonleeuwenhoek.net/content/tiny-lenses says apparently not very well back then. Hubble telescope’s was spin ...