Interesting video on how Antoni van Leeuwenhoek might have made the tiny lenses he used to make hundreds of simple, single lens microscopes using techniques he kept secret.
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mikebravo
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You and I may think that he was some kind of genius but in fact it was just a form of toxic Whiteness and colonial oppression.
2 comments:
You and I may think that he was some kind of genius but in fact it was just a form of toxic Whiteness and colonial oppression.
Mike - that's a good point, progressive museums ought to point this out before visitors get the idea that it is okay to make major discoveries.
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