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The exhibition visits six places: a domestic interior in 1683 Delft, depicting Dutch society's obsessive cleanliness coinciding with Antonie van Leeuwenhoek's discovery of microscopic "little animals"—bacteria.
Dishing the 'Dirt' on Filth Paul Levy 2011
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In the 17th century, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek made microscopes.
Puddles doyle 2009
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Unlike most natural philosophers, decidedly an upper-class group, Maria Sibylla Merian — like the pharmacist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek — came from the world of middle-class business.
The Flowering Genius of Maria Sibylla Merian Rowland, Ingrid D. 2009
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It was one thing to discover new continents or new constellations, and quite another to discover, as Antonie van Leeuwenhoek — the Dutch inventor of the microscope — did with some horror, that whole kingdoms of "animalcules" were carrying on their lives within his own mouth.
The Flowering Genius of Maria Sibylla Merian Rowland, Ingrid D. 2009
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In the 17th century, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek made microscopes.
Archive 2009-07-01 doyle 2009
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Sept. 17, 1683: Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society explaining what he saw when he looked through a microscope at plaque between his teeth.
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Sept. 17, 1683: Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society explaining what he saw when he looked through a microscope at plaque between his teeth.
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On this day in 1676, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek applied his hobby of making microscopes from his own handmade lenses to observe some water running off a roof during a heavy rainstorm.
Leeuwenhoek Sees Animalcules Staq Mavlen 2006
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The book starts off with the development of the microscope in the late 16th and 17th century by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek.
Medgadget 2010
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek before, but this adorable video may have altered my thinking.
Boing Boing 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
"A self-taught scientist, the Dutchman Antonie van Leeuwenhoek came to science by way of a fascination with magnification. He was reared for the linen trade, where the regular inspection of cloths involved the use of a simple device that could enlarge the view of the thread three times. This instrument captured his imagination. From the ages of twenty to forty he experimented with spinning thin threads of glass under heat and made dozens of devices framing tiny glass beads in copper casing. His microscopes finally achieved magnification to the power of a thousand. Leewenhoek never disclosed his ingenious technique, so no one succeeded in duplicating it in his lifetime, but he let others see his world of invisible phenomena if they shared in his search for the truth about God's creations."
--Joyce Appleby, Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2013), p. 114
December 28, 2016
chained_bear commented on the word Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
See also a historical note in the comments for microscope. And if you dig this kind of thing, check out Jan Swammerdam too.
October 6, 2017