Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is a well-known pioneer in the field of microscopy. His research was so advanced, it took about 150 years for another researcher to improve on his work. But Van Leeuwenhoek, who ...

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 ...

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A microscope used by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to conduct pioneering research contains a surprisingly ordinary lens, as new research by Rijksmuseum Boerhaave Leiden and TU Delft shows. It is a remarkable ...

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 ...

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 ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: September 17th, 1683, 334 years ago today -- a very big day for our knowledge of a very small life-form. For that was the day Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, ...

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 ...

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 ...