Van Leeuwenhoek – the film: remaking memory in Dutch science cinema 1925– c. 1960
Abstract This paper examines how the production, content and reception of the film Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1924) influenced the historical framing of science. The film features microcinematography by the pioneering Dutch filmmaker Jan Cornelis Mol (1891–1954), and was part of a dynamic process of commemorating seventeenth-century microscopy and bacteriology through an early instance of visual re-creation – a new way of using scientific material heritage, and of enabling audiences to supposedly observe the world of microscopic organisms in just the same way as the Dutch scientist Antoni van Lee... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2023 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | The British Journal for the History of Science ; volume 56, issue 3, page 329-349 ; ISSN 0007-0874 1474-001X |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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Schlagwörter: | History and Philosophy of Science / History |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26685282 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s000708742300016x |