University Museum Utrecht | UMU
University museum of scientific heritage, home to a rare single-lens microscope of brass.
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This guide to the University Museum Utrecht follows Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the self-taught Delft lens-maker of the late sixteen hundreds, and a visitor who arrived at his door in sixteen eighty-five with one question. Robert Hooke and the Royal Society in London wanted the same answer. Along the way you'll meet a tiny brass instrument the university has kept since the early eighteen hundreds.
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