Google is honoring Dutch-born scientist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek with a Doodle to mark his 384th birthday. Known as the “Father of Microbiology,” van Leeuwenhoek designed the single-lens microscope and ...
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 ...
Imagine trying to cope with a pandemic like COVID-19 in a world where microscopic life was unknown. Prior to the 17th century, people were limited by what they could see with their own two eyes. But ...
In the late 17th century, a Dutch draper and self-taught scientist named Antonie van Leeuwenhoek earned renown for building some of the best microscopes available at a time when the instrument was ...
Researchers from TU Delft and Rijksmuseum Boerhaave have solved an age-old mystery surrounding Antonie van Leeuwenhoek's microscopes. A unique collaboration at the interface between culture and ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . One of the thrilling aspects of scientific discovery is that it can come from almost anywhere, and almost anyone ...
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 ...
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