![]() ![]() ![]() In this discussion chaired by Dirk van Miert, director of the Huygens Institute for the History and Culture of the Netherlands, Katharine Cashman and Matthew Cobb will explore the development of microscopy and its applications in their respective areas of research. ![]() Join us for a discussion and Q&A with Professor Katharine Cashman FRS, Professor Matthew Cobb, and Dr Dirk van Miert to celebrate Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and the development of microscopy to the present day. 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 informationįrom Leeuwenhoek to the electron microscope 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. ‘Invisible Blanket’ will be screening in conjunction with ‘The Human Element’, a film from the award-winning producers of Chasing Ice, The Cove, and Racing Extinction, which tells an urgent story of environmental change while giving inspirations for a more balanced relationship between humanity and nature.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. Their predictions turned out to be rather accurate, yet their voices remained “unheard” for more than half of a century. ![]() Invisible Blanket is based on real events and publications of 1950s when the first climate change scientists started to voice their concerns in major US magazines and newspapers. Yet these are also stories of inspiration and hope, of people who are rising up to protect their land, their forests, water, air, and fight for their environmental justice. Now in it’s 8th year, SF Green Film Fest presents urgent new stories from the environmental front-lines - from the wildfires of California to vanishing islands in the Pacific, from the melting Arctic tundra to a receding Amazon. ![]()
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