We all did it. Sometime during our junior high school science class, the microscope came out and glass slides were created with ordinary pond water sandwiched in between the slide and the thin glass ...

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 ...

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CORNING, NY — To closely inspect the evolution of the microscope, the Corning Museum of Glass is highlighting the lens-making behind the optical tool. Revealing the Invisible includes one of the few ...

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 ...

Ever since Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1670) resolved what he described as "animalicules" with his crude single-lens microscope, the knowledge of these tiny organisms has been menacing. Like Gulliver ...

An informative documentary in five parts about the life of the 17th century microbiologist and microscopist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and his discoveries in the field of micro-organisms.

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Prologue: More than meets the eye -- Counterfeiter of nature -- From the lion's corner -- Fire and light -- Learning to see -- Ut pictura, ita visio -- Mathematical artists -- A treasure-house of ...

In the 17th century, a Dutch merchant named Antony van Leeuwenhoek began experimenting with making new microscope lenses and, in the process, plunged humanity into a new world—this one teeming with ...