Douglas Anderson, professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, and guest researcher at the Huygens Institute for Dutch History in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, has been appointed to the management team supervising the Dutch Research Agenda Science Communication grant awarded by the Dutch Research Council titled “Through the Lens of Antoni: How do you represent what you cannot see?” The grant will result in an education program combined with an interactive multimedia digital platform to engage school pupils in an experimental way with the invention and the societal impact of the microscope from the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century up to the present. The aim is to increase young people’s faith in science. These activities are a prelude to a documentary series and public events planned for the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Year 2023, commemorating the 300th anniversary of Leeuwenhoek’s death, for which Anderson is a member of the management consortium.

This photograph shows a cross-section of the optical nerve of a cow, the actual specimen that Leeuwenhoek sent to the Royal Society in London in 1674 and that was photographed recently by Wim van Egmond, one of the members of the Through the Lens of Antoni research team.

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