Unimaginable. How Van Leeuwenhoek’s Microscope Changed the World

• Autores: Johannes Geert Hagmann
• Localización: Nuncius: annali di storia della scienza, ISSN 0394-7394, Vol. 38, Nº. 3, 2023, págs. 715-717
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The exhibition Unimaginable is centred on two questions: How did early micro-scopic imaging technology emerge? How did it enable the birth of a new scientific discipline—microbiology? The year 2023 marks the 300 anniversary of the death of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723), a merchant turned instrument maker and amateur scientist whose simple microscopes enabled, among other observations, the first view on living cells of algae, microbes in water and bacteria in plaque.