Making Visible

Making Visible: The visual and graphic practices of the early Royal Society.
AHRC funded research project at CRASSH.

[Katie Reinhart @KatieofReinhart]

Delighted to announce the CFP for our symposium "Images & Institutions: The Visual Culture of Early Modern Scientific Societies" to be held in Rome, @BiblHertz @KNIRome & Accademia dei #Lincei,
September 14-16, 2022.

Full CFP can be read here:
https://t.co/4r6aHVOCgs

[Katie Reinhart @KatieofReinhart]

Pleased to have been a small part of this with the @MVCRASSH project @CRASSHlive @ahrcpress. Thinking fondly on many days #inthearchives with @sietske_fransen #MVScImages

[CRASSH, Cambridge @CRASSHlive]

New Blog: 'Eye to Eye with a 350-Year Old Cow: Leeuwenhoek’s Specimens and Original Microscope Reunited'
Read about this remarkable event!
➞ https://t.co/lf7OkV3xqi
@MVCRASSH
@sietske_fransen
@royalsociety
@hertzianatweets
@ahrcpress
@EModCam
@hpslib
#rijksmuseumboerhaave

[Katie Reinhart @KatieofReinhart]

Thank you Catriona, and the rest of the Word & Image @tandfonline team, for helping see this issue to fruition. It was a pleasure to edit with @sietske_fransen and work with all of our wonderful authors. I can't wait to get my hands on a hard copy!

[CRASSH, Cambridge @CRASSHlive]

Take a look at this fascinating thread about an event organised by our former research project 'Making Visible' (@MVCRASSH), with help from the @museumboerhaave and the @royalsociety, resulting in an extraordinary reunion!
#antonivanleeuwenhoek
#earlymodern
#microscopy

[The Royal Society @royalsociety]

What may be the earliest surviving objects seen by microscope – specimens prepared and viewed by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek – have been reunited with one of his original microscopes for a state-of-the-art photoshoot: https://t.co/quGe5YOdUg

📷: ©Wim van Egmond

[The Royal Society @royalsociety]

As evidence for his 1670s and 1680s observations, narrated in letters to the London’s Royal Society, he sent a variety of specimens: cows’ optic nerves (left), sections of cork and elder (right), and ‘dried phlegm from a barrel’.

[The Royal Society @royalsociety]

A state-of-the-art photoshoot allowed science historians to recapture the ‘look’ of seventeenth century science, recording the moment in digital films and with stunning high-resolution colour photographs for the first time.

Photo credit ©Wim van Egmond

[The Royal Society @royalsociety]

Last month, these materials, in their original packages, flew back across the North Sea from the Royal Society to @museumboerhaave where they were reunited with an original Leeuwenhoek microscope.

Photo credit ©Wim van Egmond

[The Royal Society @royalsociety]

Eye to eye with a 350-year old cow: what may be the earliest surviving objects seen by microscope – specimens prepared and viewed by the early Dutch naturalist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek – have been reunited with one of his original microscopes...

[Making Visible @MVCRASSH]

Deep gratitude and a very big thank you goes to @ahrcpress @CRASSHlive @Cambridge_Uni and @royalsociety who have supported and hosted 'Making Visible: The Visual and Graphic Practices of the early Royal Society 1660-1710' for the past 4 years. Thank you!

[Making Visible @MVCRASSH]

And here we have arrived at our last day of the project! Thank you for all of our project friends - real & on twitter - who have followed our research & events, and we will hope you will keep an eye out for more down the road.

[Making Visible @MVCRASSH]

Welcome!

[Making Visible @MVCRASSH]

And all of the images from our research database can be searched and accessed through the @royalsociety Picture Library here: https://t.co/Qv3QkvUJDo

[Making Visible @MVCRASSH]

And did we mention all this time we built a database? We catalogued and researched ever archival image in the first 50 years of the @royalsociety archives!

[Making Visible @MVCRASSH]

A toast to our final image! We've gone through all the MSS #inthearchives @royalsociety 1660-1710! Phase 1 completed! #MVScImages

[Making Visible @MVCRASSH]

Turns out there were quite a few - over 4000! There were diagrams, double-headed cats, kidney stones, ancient sculptures, fleas, air pumps, cheese-makers, and so so many triangles.... There were images of all kinds! Some small; others very big like the fold out map pictured here:

[Making Visible @MVCRASSH]

On a chilly day this January we had a study day on the 'Materiality of Early Modern Optical Instruments' with Tiemen Cocqyut & Michael Korey. Here we are trying out a galilean telescope. (a replica don't worry!)

[Making Visible @MVCRASSH]

Spying on @EmmaCambridge with replica seventeenth-century telescopes. Replicas made by Tiemen Cocqyut from @museumboerhaave #opticalinstrument day @CambridgeHPS @CRASSHlive

[Making Visible @MVCRASSH]

We went from video to radio as @KatieofReinhart & @sietske_fransen discussed historic scientific images for the @NakedScientists on @BBCCambs & their podcast!

[Making Visible @MVCRASSH]

(Re-)listen to the interview about scientific images with postdocs @KatieofReinhart and @sietske_fransen in the podcast of the @NakedScientists: Art: From Colours to Counterfeits https://t.co/IjJbtCA11l

[Making Visible @MVCRASSH]

And @sietske_fransen talked about some Newtonian objects as well as a certain rat testicle drawing...

[Making Visible @MVCRASSH]

Our project member @sietske_fransen discusses among other things Isaac Newton's compass and some rat's testicles in another @Objectivity_Vid, created in association with our exhibition at the @royalsociety
https://t.co/n8t53wAhFT
@ahrcpress
#royalsociety #ahrc #SciencemadeVisible

[Making Visible @MVCRASSH]

And of course there were the videos we made with for @Objectivity_Vid! @KatieofReinhart chatted with @BradyHaran about diagram woodcuts made for Newton's Principia:

[Making Visible @MVCRASSH]

We proudly present this @royalsociety video, featuring project member @KatieofReinhart speaking about Isaac Newton's Woodblocks which were recently found at the #wrenlibrary https://t.co/CWQQ7zX3lE
@CRASSHlive @ahrcpress @TrinCollCam @TrinCollLibCam #theroyalsociety #ahrc