Enlarging Nature: Microscopes, Science, and Society
Microscopes from the Goren Collection of Historical Microscopes, dating to 1670 - 1900, are now included in an exhibition entitled: Enlarging Nature: Microscopes, Science, and Society. The exhibition is located at the Humanities and Social Sciences reading room of the Zalman Aranne Central Library, Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Each one of the ten showcases represents a theme in the history of science, covering the sequence between the 17th and the 20th centuries, as reflected by the history of microscopy. The exhibition is on behalf of the Department of Bible, Archaeology and the Ancient Near East and the Track in Archaeomaterials Sciences and Conservation
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Tripod microscope attributed to Mathew Loft, London, ca. 1730.
Microscopical Research: The First Discoveries
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Pioneers of Bacteriology
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Charles Darwin by the Microscope
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The Amateur Microscopist: Sir Edward Elgar
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Microscopy at the Age of Enlightenment
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The Microscope in Victorian England
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The Microscope and Natural History during the 18th century
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The Microscope and Popular Science
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The First Microscopes in Israeli Academy
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The Microscope and Humanities: The Microarchaeology Laboratory
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Other University-Based Historical Microscope Collections
The Lentz Microscope Collection at the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University (USA)
The Microscope Collection at the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University (USA)
Historic Microscope Collection, East Carolina University (USA)
College of Optical Sciences Collection, University of Arizona (USA)
The Golub Collection of Historical Microscopes at the University of California, Berkeley (USA)
Wiliam A. Antipol Antique Microscope Collections at the Museum of Biodiversity, University of Notre Dame (USA)
James B. McCormick Replica Rare Antique Microscope Collection at the University of Notre Dame (USA)
The The Moody Collection of Historical Microscopes at the The University of Texas Medical Branch (USA)
RMS Microscope Collection at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford University (UK)
Microscope Collection at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, University of Cambridge (UK)
The Microscope Collection of the University of Sydney (Australia)
Microscope collection of the University of Groningen (Netherlands)
Microscopes at the Real Academia Nacional De Medicina (Spain)
Museo de Microscopia, Universidad de Salamanca (Spain)
Microscopes by Amici, Instruments at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Piza (Italy)
Microscope Collection at the Physics Museum, University of Padua (Italy)