News | Two New Leeuwenhoek Microscopes?
THE MICROSCOPE
2015, Volume 63:1, pp. 35–36
DOI
https://doi.org/10.59082/USEU3396
AUTHOR
Brian J. Ford
EXCERPT
Microscopes made by the Dutch pioneer Antony van Leeuwenhoek have intrigued me since I was a teenager. Although all of his microscopes are now believed to be accounted for, two more may have possibly been discovered. One is a small silver object in a box of oddments found in the desk of a dying silver merchant, and the other is no more than a scrap of dirty metal dredged from a Dutch canal.