Editorial | Another Leeuwenhoek Comes to Light
THE MICROSCOPE
2023, Volume 70:3, p. ii
DOI
https://doi.org/10.59082/KEAI2623
AUTHOR
Dean Golemis
EXCERPT
Antony van Leeuwenhoek's handmade microscopes -- those simple, single-lens instruments small enough to rest in the palm of your hand -- continue to intrigue and fetch large sums at auction. The Dutch microbiologist is known to have left 247 microscopes when he died in 1723. And now, one more has surfaced.