NWO_MicroLabs

This is the official account of the @NWONieuws -funded project Visualizing the Unknown. A collaboration between @huygens_knaw @museumboerhaave and @biblhertz.

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Today is Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's birthday (b. 1632)! To celebrate, our photographer @wimicrobe has made a video of MicroLab1, observing bees through 17thC microscopes from @museumboerhaave. Enjoy! 🐝🔬https://t.co/IXauhP1a3F (see bottom of the page) @huygens_knaw @BiblHertz

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For more information and tickets [in Dutch], please follow the link 👇https://t.co/fqZnQ8EHe1

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Save the date for #Eureka! The theme of this year's Night of History @Rijksmuseum. Organized together with @huygens_knaw, @NIODamsterdam, @deBuren, @BlackAMonth

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Zooming in, our PI Eric Jorink, PhD Ellen Pater and intern Larisa van Vianen will reveal something about 17thcentury microscopy and it’s practices of observation and depiction in the Rijksmuseum library. (including a life drawing session with a microscope)

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Less than a week to go for the #Leeuwenhoek conference 14 & 15 September @ Royal Society in London! We’re looking forward to it very much.
Tickets are still available at: https://t.co/J6mF4gv8on

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We are very excited to announce the upcoming conference 14&15 September at @royalsociety in London celebrating #Leeuwenhoek and his afterlife. Amazing speakers, state-of-the-art research. Tickets can be booked now👇https://t.co/J6mF4gv8on

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Our PI Eric Jorink introducing our project to the @MPIWG today at a workshop organized by Katja Krause and her Max Planck research group “Experience in the Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body”

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Een heel mooi draadje over de eerste tekeningen van microorganismen! Spannende resultaten van ons onderzoek!

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Scoop! Eric Jorink of @huygens_knaw reveals discovery, by the team of @NWONieuws's project https://t.co/CeqE5bt2Vf, of the first ever recorded drawings (kept at @ubleiden) of single-celled organisms, at a packed Christian Huygens Birthday Symposium on 14 April @ifnl_nl @_knaw 1/4

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Sinds vandaag verkrijgbaar! Het boek stond onder redactie van onze teamleden @sietske_fransen @BiblHertz en Tim Huisman @museumboerhaave

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Bij de tentoonstelling #Onvoorstelbaar @museumboerhaave verschijnt het boek Antoni. Van Leeuwenhoek en de microwereld. Het staat boordevol spectaculaire microfotografie @wimicrobe uit de @nwo_microlabs van ons project Visualizing the Unknown. #antonivanleeuwenhoekjaar2023

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Our newest blogpost contains a review by Eric Jorink of @GeertjeDekkers her new biography of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek! Hopefully it will get translated into English soon!! #biographies #microscopy #ViezeToni #300yearsafter #AvL2023 https://t.co/kBPATJkJbN

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#VanLeeuwenhoek ontdekte wat niemand ooit eerder zag. Met zelfgebouwde microscopen bekeek hij onvoorstelbaar kleine diertjes en deeltjes in putwater en mee-eters. @GeertjeDekkers @NWO_MicroLabs schreef over hem de biografie Veel, klein en curieus.🥳 #AvL23 https://t.co/fiqv2n3owj

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How do you cut a material like wood into tiny slices; slices small and thin enough for under the microscope?

In a new blog, our microscopists Frank Van Campen and Hans Huijbregts explain how sections are made.
https://t.co/HbiIKUkL9u

@huygens_knaw #microscope #preparations

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And again, we perceived what an investment of time and effort it was to painstakingly draw the lacy structures found in plants and woods. How much time and effort do you think it took Nehemiah Grew to make drawings for the 'Anatomy of Plants' ?
#anatomyofplants #Grew #drawing

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Today, 311 years ago, Nehemiah Grew passed away. A good moment to briefly reflect on his life, and, of course, on his work with the microscope.

🔬🥕🌱#NehemiahGrew #Microscope

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In our last MicroLab we followed in Grew’s, Malpighi’s and Leeuwenhoek’s footsteps, observing the structures of wood and plants through the lens of the microscope. We noticed how tiny and thin the slices of the specimens had to be cut for making observations.

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Thanks to the whole team (https://t.co/70xWyco3jT), @museumboerhaave for hosting us all and our special guests Pamela MacKenzie, restorer Auke Gerrits and @huygens_knaw @Dirk_van_Miert for joining us!

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And we’re off! MicroLab5 on plants with special guest and Nehemiah Grew specialist Pamela MacKenzie! @museumboerhaave

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And finally also some fresh materials (what are we looking at?) with a Leeuwenhoek and a Musschenbroek microscope.