The papers in this conference will make clear that microscopic practices and the way in which scientists communicated their findings to each other started in Leeuwenhoek’s time and are still used today.Ĭonference organisers: Dr Sietske Fransen, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History Drs Tiemen Cocquyt, Rijksmuseum Boerhaave Professor Dr Eric Jorink, Leiden University & Huygens Instituut.īooking via Eventbrite is essential for this eventįor all enquiries, please contact travel and accessibility information We will show how Leeuwenhoek was working as part of a large European network of scientists exploring the natural world with microscopes. In this conference we will take a close look at Leeuwenhoek’s seventeenth- and eighteenth-century microscopic practices as well as the development of the field of microscopy from his death to the twenty-first century. With these instruments and his outstanding preparation and observation techniques, he was the first to see and describe red blood cells, bacteria and many other things. He made his own lenses and small hand-held microscopes which were more versatile than most other devices at the time.
Leeuwenhoek, born in Delft in the Netherlands in 1632, developed himself into one of the most prolific early microscopists. He had been corresponding with the Royal Society for fifty years. Three hundred years ago the Dutch microscopist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek died. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and his impact on the history of microscopyĪ celebration of the work of Dutch microscopist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 – 1723) and the development of microscopy to the present day.
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