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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Centraal

http://leeuwenhoek.wordpress.com/

On the Science and Scientists of The Netherlands’ Golden Age.

• Added on: Dec 28th, 2008
• Country: Canada
• Language: English

• Author: Adrian Thysse
• Listed in: Science Natural
• Tags: science history Holland Dutch renaissance microscope

Recent Posts

• The Whipple Museum of the History of Science

  Posted on Thursday December 17th, 2009 at 07:00 in museum, University, replica, cambridge, microscope, leeuwenhoek

  The Whipple Museum of the History of Science in Cambridge, England  houses a collection of  “...scientific instruments, apparatus, models, pictures, prints, photographs, books and other material related to the history of science.” It wa...

• Leeuwenhoek’s Microscope in the Classroom

  Posted on Saturday December 12th, 2009 at 07:03 in education, microbiology, microscope, hooke, leeuwenhoek

  An article from CBE – Life Sciences promotes Leeuwenhoek for teaching science history in high school. In the effort to motivate an interest in the history of science, this study from Brazil utilizes replicas of the Leeuwenhoek microscope to con...

• A Gift From The Royal Society

  Posted on Sunday November 29th, 2009 at 23:44 in science, society, anniversary, royal society, history of science, leeuwenhoek, de graaf

  In celebration of its 350th anniversary,  The Royal Society (London)  is opening its digital vaults again! Celebrating three and a half centuries of science in 2010 The dissemination of scientific research has been a core activity for the Royal ...

• England Plundered Holland’s Glory

  Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 23:16 in Culture, music, book, prize, arts, english, England, Holland, Dutch, gardening, huygens, history of science

  Lisa Jardine, author of Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland’s Glory, has won McGill University’s Cundill prize: Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland’s Glory (Harper), the remarkable story of the relationship between ...

• New Leeuwenhoek Web Site!

  Posted on Wednesday September 30th, 2009 at 21:43 in science, website, new, delft, leeuwenhoek

  Good news for all Leeuwenhoek students and those interested in the science of The Netherland’s Golden Age. Douglas Anderson has produced a new web site called Lens on Leeuwenhoek. Why a web site dedicated to Antoni van Leeuwenhoek? From the int...

• Bridge to the Past – The Leeuwenhoek Microscope

  Posted on Tuesday July 21st, 2009 at 20:17 in Students, build, lenses, microbiology, royal society, microscopes, leeuwenhoek, lens grinding

  I know I promised to stay away until fall, but this came up at Small Things Considered and I thought it deserved attention – recreating the past to better understand the present: The Ten Minute Leeuwenhoek Microscope by Patrick Keeling¹ Pat...

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