Week Three: MICROSCOPES!

It was all about the micro this week, with an amazing field trip to Dr John Basey's biology lab where we were instructed in basic lab procedures and handled various scalpels, bunsen burners, slides, dyes, and peered at our very own bacteria through binocular microscopes. Then we drew what we could see, at different magnifications--here below is a one of the drawings of the shallot cells (um, onion cells) just like Leeuwenhoek who wrote to his friend in 1716
. . . my work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men. And therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.

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We also watched the fluidly amazing Micromoth made by filmmaker Julie Murray with a Bolex and a microscope, and read about her methods and explorations. Then we were all inspired of course to  play around with a nifty little micro-cam.