Friday, May 24, 2013

Wednesday in the Boerhaave (Kyle)

At Boerhaave, we were able to see a huge variety of different historical pieces from the 16th century onward. When I'd heard about Leeuwenhoek's discoveries in the past I'd always assume he'd been using the type of microscope we always had heard about in the past. What he was really using really shocked me. The fact that it was just one lens and it was focused by simply tilting the lens very slightly was very interesting. I didn't even realize that a single lens was able to view a single cell using one of those microscopes was really fascinating and made me appreciate the work that he was able to do.
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  1. UnknownMay 24, 2013 at 9:53 AM

    Those microscopes were really small. It was also neat that he wouldn't share how his microscopes worked.

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  2. UnknownMay 24, 2013 at 10:56 AM

    I think I remember someone saying that those microscopes magnified to somewhere between 100 and 300 times? I didn't think that that would be enough magnification either... Correct me on my orders of magnitude, but to see micro-organisms wouldn't you need to have magnification at around x10^6? Clarification needed here.

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