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	<title>Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Centraal</title>
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		<title>Farewell Antoni&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian D. Thysse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Centraal, the blog,  is now officially retired. I began this site originally because I was disappointed that Holland, and the town of Delft in particular, had made no concrete attempt to recognize van Leeuwenhoek and his impact on early science. As far as I know, this has not changed. However, with the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leeuwenhoek.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4685834&#038;post=690&#038;subd=leeuwenhoek&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leeuwenhoek and The Lecture&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 14:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian D. Thysse</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leeuwenhoek]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leeuwenhoek Lecture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every three years, the Royal Society recognises excellence in the fields of microbiology, bacteriology, virology, mycology, parasitology, and microscopy by offering the Leeuwenhoek Lecture prize. For more on this lectureship prize, visit Leeuwenhoek Lecture at the Royal Society. For a more on the prize and why Leeuwenhoek is honored in this way, read The Leeuwenhoek Lecture [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leeuwenhoek.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4685834&#038;post=687&#038;subd=leeuwenhoek&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Population, Leeuwenhoek and National Geographic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian D. Thysse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Geographic is running a special series on population &#8211; and who is leading the way on population estimates? Though his tiny peephole gave him privileged access to a never-before-seen microscopic universe, he spent an enormous amount of time looking at spermatozoa, as they’re now called. Oddly enough, it was the milt he squeezed from [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leeuwenhoek.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4685834&#038;post=674&#038;subd=leeuwenhoek&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top Ten Zoological Discoveries</title>
		<link>http://leeuwenhoek.wordpress.com/2010/11/19/top-ten-zoological-discoveries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian D. Thysse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian has an article on the greatest discoveries in zoology: At BBC Wildlife magazine, a panel of judges has been mulling over the question. Today, the results of their deliberations are published as the top 10 breakthroughs in zoology. The list in full is below, in descending order. How have they fared? Leeuwenhoek places [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leeuwenhoek.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4685834&#038;post=671&#038;subd=leeuwenhoek&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Look out for We, Beasties&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://leeuwenhoek.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/look-out-for-we-beasties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian D. Thysse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new blog called We, Beasties is joining ScienceBlogs. It is run byKevin Bonham who is in the immunology program at Harvard. He and other contributors will be covering the diverse world of microbes, and he pays tribute to Leeuwenhoek in his first post today: In 1674, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek pointed a microscope at pond [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leeuwenhoek.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4685834&#038;post=669&#038;subd=leeuwenhoek&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>London Dreaming&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://leeuwenhoek.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/london-dreaming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 02:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian D. Thysse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Linnean Society, The Royal Geographic Society, The Royal Geological Society, The Natural History Museum&#8230; The Royal Society is hosting a series of free lunch time lectures on the history of science. On October 29 at 1:00 PM they are featuring Professor Brian J. Ford, an expert on the history of microscopy: The birth of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leeuwenhoek.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4685834&#038;post=664&#038;subd=leeuwenhoek&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Giants Shoulders # 28</title>
		<link>http://leeuwenhoek.wordpress.com/2010/10/17/the-giants-shoulders-28/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 14:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian D. Thysse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 28th edition of The Giant&#8217;s Shoulders is up at From the Hands of Quacks. This edition features lots of eye candy on the history of science&#8230;visit Visuals and Representations now! &#160; Filed under: History of Science, Leiden, Leiden University<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leeuwenhoek.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4685834&#038;post=657&#038;subd=leeuwenhoek&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leeuwenhoek and the World&#8217;s Population</title>
		<link>http://leeuwenhoek.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/leeuwenhoek-and-the-worlds-population/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian D. Thysse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The History of Science Centre’s blog at the Royal Society has an article on what is perhaps the first attempt to estimate the human population of the world: Leeuwenhoek wrote: “If we assume that the inhabited part of the earth is as densely populated as Holland [which then had a population of perhaps one million [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leeuwenhoek.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4685834&#038;post=655&#038;subd=leeuwenhoek&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First Published Microscopy Article?</title>
		<link>http://leeuwenhoek.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/first-published-microscopy-article/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian D. Thysse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before Hooke published his Micrographia (1665), and before Leeuwenhoek&#8217;s first letter to the Royal Society (1673), others had published on microscopy. The OU History of Science Collections has documented two more early users of the microscope. They were contemporaries of Galileo  &#8211; fellow members of the Academy of the Lynx-Eyed &#8211; and they produced a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leeuwenhoek.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4685834&#038;post=645&#038;subd=leeuwenhoek&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free at the Royal Society</title>
		<link>http://leeuwenhoek.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/free-at-the-royal-society/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian D. Thysse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once more, The Royal Society is opening its digital archives to all: The Royal Society Digital Journal Archive To celebrate a summer of science and the launch of See Further: the Festival of Science and Arts we are pleased to announce that the Royal Society Digital Journal Archive will be freely available to view until [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leeuwenhoek.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4685834&#038;post=634&#038;subd=leeuwenhoek&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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