Bibliography

400 publications on Leeuwenhoek research 1966-2025

Move on to History of the Microscope or the van Leeuwenhoek site.

This list of more than 400 references covers BJF scholarly and research publications
on Antony van Leeuwenhoek with citations, lectures and other academic reports.
Over 260 are publications, lectures and presentations by Brian J Ford.
Note: this list is in reverse order with most recent first.

• BJF, 2025, Reflecting Realities. Leeuwenhoek's Limner and the Engraving of Life, InFocus, Proceedings of the Royal Microscopical Society, 77: 28-37, March.
• BJF, 2025, How Robert Hooke observed the Flea in 1665, see also uncorrected proof, Microscopy Today: 2-4, March, https://doi.org/10.1093/mictod/qaaf010
• BJF, 2024, Focus through Time, Laboratory News December: 33-34.
• BJF, 2024, What could the First Microscopists See? Critical Focus No 51, The Microscope 71 (2): 84-95, https://doi.org/10.59082/KQVK8045
• BJF, 2024, invited online presentations to Inter/Micro 24 conference:
  • The World's best (old) Microscopy, and the the World's worst New) Microscopy, 0900h, 11 June.
  • The Pioneer's view - what were they Observing?, 0900h, 12 June.
  • Genuine or Replica? Authenticating Leeuwenhoek Microscopes, 14:00, 12 June.
    McCrone Research Institiute, Chicago, Illinois.
• BJF, 2024, invited review paper [in] Applied Microscopy (in peparation).
• BJF, 2024, New Leeuwenhoek microscope authenticated by Professor Brian J Ford, HonFLS, HonFRMS, Lab Bulletin online, 12 March [see also screen grab].
• BJF, 2024, The Scanning Microscope and Leeuwenhoek's Legacy, InFocus, Proceedings of the Royal Microscopical Society online: 22-27, 6 March.
• Oliver Moreton, 2024, Leeuwenhoek's Legacy, InFocus, Proceedings of the Royal Microscopical Society online: front cover, 6 March.
• BJF, 2024, The search for authenticity, Leeuwenhoek microscopes under the SEM, Microscopy and Analysis: 15-17.
• Brian Attwood, 2024, Dutch master rediscovered, Laboratory News, 2024 (1): 40.
• Richard Jacobs, 2024, edited video edition of Marveling at Microscopes, Looking back at 17th Century Science with Brian J. Ford, Finding Genius with Richard Jacobs, 4 February.
• Dean Golemis, 2024, editorial: Another Leeuwenhoek comes to Light, The Microscope 70 (3): ii, January. doi.org/10.59082/KEAI2623.
• Brian J Ford, 2024, The search for authenticity, Leeuwenhoek microscopes under the SEM, Microscopy and Analsysis online: 15-17, 30 January.
• Richard Jacobs, 2024, Marveling at Microscopes, Looking back at 17th Century Science with Brian J. Ford, Finding Genius podcast, 3 January.
• BJF, 2024, Discovery with the light microscope opening chapter [in] John A Reffner, Barbara W Kammrath, Solving Problems with Microscopy: Real-life Examples in Forensic, Life and Chemical Sciences, New York: John Wiley & Sons, January.
• BJF, 2023, Leeuwenhoek specimens under the microscope - revealing the secrets from the oldest microscope specimens, Imaging & Microscopy: 25: 17-20, 30 November.
• Lousisiane Ferlier, 2023, Focus on Leeuwenhoek, London: Royal Society blog, 10 September. See also file copy as PDF.
• BJF, 2023, Antony van Leeuwenhoek's specimens under the Microscope, Imaging and Microscopy online, 30 August.
• BJF, 2023, Mystery of the Microscope in Mud, Celebrating 300 Years since Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Illustrated lecture aboard Seabourn Sopourn, 26 August.
• BJF, 2023, Van Leeuwenhoek's rich legacy endures three centuries on, Laboratory News online, 24 August.
• BJF, 2023, Marking the 300th aniversary of the death of Dutch microscopist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Lab Bulletin online, 16 August 2023 (see also online PDF).
• Smith, J. M., 2023, The silver Ernst Abbe medal of the New York Microscopical Society - Prof Brian J Ford award, Yearbook 2023, France: European Microscopy Society: 42, July.
• BJF, 2023, How Leeuwenhoek saw Life - Recreated for the First Time, Microscopy & Analysis: 14-17, July/August.
• BJF, 2023, Leeuwenhoek's Fourth Mystery - Revealing what the Pioneers could Truly Observe, online presentation to Inter/Micro 23, Chicago: McCrone Resedarch Institute, 13 June.
• BJF, 2022, Seeing what Leeuwenhoek saw, In Focus, Proceedings of the Royal Microscopical Society, 60: 30-35, December.
• BJF, 2022, Turning back the centuries of microscopy, Microscopy and Analysis 36(6): 18-21, December.
• Dirk van Delft, 2022, Onzichtbaar Leven (discusses Brian J Ford Leeuwenhoek research), Amsterdam: Prometheus.
• RS, 2021, Camacho's seventeenth-century microscope declared an Asset of Cultural Interest, Vigo, Spain: Atlantico, 6 December [see also: English translation].
• Report, 2019, Leeuwenhoek misrepresented - online submissions from the 'Making Visible' project, October 16-17:
  • Extract from Photoshoot captures Leeuwenhoek's Specimens, (refers to Brian J Ford's priority), Microscopy and Analysis online. See also: original article online, and screen grab version.
  • Extract from Eye to Eye with a 350 year old cow, Royal Society website. See also original article online, and screen grab version.
  • Extract from Eye to Eye with a 350 year old cow, Max-Planck Institute website. See also original article and screeen grab version.
  • Extract from Eye to Eye with a 350 year old cow, phys.org site. See also original article, and screen grab version.
  • Extract from Eye to Eye with a 350 year old cow, Leeuwenhoek's Specimens and Original Microscope reunited, announcement from Cambridge University, acknowledging the bibliography of the original research. See also original article onbline, and screen grab version.
  • Extract from Eye to Eye with an Old Cow, Boerhaave Museum press release. See also Persmap 'Oog in oog met een oude koe', original press release, and screen grab of English version.
  • Extract from Modern meekijken met Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, report in NRC Handelsblad, Netherlands. See also Modern meekijken met Antoni van Leeuwenhoek online, and screen grab version.
  • Extract from Photoshoot with Original Leeuwenhoek Microscope and Specimens, report on 24-Oranges website. See also original article, and screen grab version.
  • Eye to Eye with an Old Cow, announcements posted on Facebook. See also current page on Facebook site.
  • Extract from Eye to Eye with a 350 year old cow, Leeuwenhoek's Specimens and Original Microscope Reunited, updated statement from Cambridge with acknowledgement of the Leeuwenhoek bibliography. See also CRASSH statement online, from Cambridge University, 1 November.
• BJF, 2019, illustrated presentation for Inter/Micro 2019: The Mystery of Leeuwenhoek s Canoe, McCrone Research Institute, Chicago, 1400h, 12 June.
• Carlos Prego, 2018, El microscopio de Leeuwenhoek que emergi del lodo y termin subastado en eBay, [reports Brian J Ford and the Camacho microscope], Hipertextual, 25 May.
• Gase, Jacqueline, 2019, Microscopical Investigation: Impressions from Robert Hooke's Microscope (cites Brian J Ford conclusions on Hooke inspiring Leeuwenhoek in Leeuwenhoek Legacy, q.v.), [in] The Micrograph, Silver Spring, MD: National Musdeum of Health and Medicine, April 26.
• Pool, Rebecca, 2017, Life through a Microscope [profile], Microscopy and Microanalysis 32: 6-8, October.
• BJF, 2017, Complex constructs from the Simple Microscope, lecture-demonstration at Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Whipple Museum, Cambridge University, 11:00-12:30, 19 October.
• BJF, 2017, Lecturing on Microscopy, Microscopy Today doi:10.1017/2 S1551929517000426, September.
• O'Leary, Colum (2017) [comments on "Professor Brian Ford's thought-provoking lecture"] InFocus, Proceedings of the Royal Microscopical Society, 48: 64-75.
• Report, 2017, plenary lecture announcement: Revelation and the living cell, a perplexing past and phenomenal future, mmc2017 brochure [supplement to] Microscopy and Analysis 30: 11, July.
• BJF, 2017, Revelation and the living cell, a perplexing past and phenomenal future, plenary lecture to Microscopy and Microscience 2017, Royal Microscopical Society, Manchester: Convention Centre, 1700-1730h, 7 July.
• Peckham, Michelle, 2017, From the President [with brief report of Brian J Ford plenary address at mmc2017 conference], InFocus - Proceedings of the Royal Microscopical Society 47: 74.
• BJF, 2017, Critical Focus No 28: The Latest Tally: 100 lectures and counting, The Microscope, 65 (1): 21-31.
• BJF, 2017, Mystery of the $ million microscope in the mud, presentation to Gwinnett College, Atlanta: Georgia Microscopical Society, 20 June, 1930h.
• Report, 2017, Brian J Ford announced as new honorary fellow of Royal Microscopical Society, InFocus magazine 46: 76-77, June.
• Report, 2017, opening ceremony report on El Museo de la Evoluci n Humana presenta la exposici n El amigo de Vermeer - el ojo y la lente, Dr Tom s Camacho with Brian J Ford investigations of Leeuwenhoek microscope, Burgos TV online, 7 April.
• Announcement, 2017, plenary speakers for Microscience Microscopy Congress 2017 announced; Oxford: mmc17, 13 April.
• Announcement, 2017, 100 Talks in 60 Minutes, "An Evening with Brian" at Inter/Micro 2017, Chicago, Illinois: McCrone Research Institute, 24 May.
• BJF, 2017, Mystery of the $ million microscope in the mud, presentation to Georgia Microscopical Society, Gwinnett College, Atlanta: 20 June, 1930h.
• Report, 2017, Brian J Ford announced as new honorary fellow of Royal Microscopical Society, InFocus magazine 46: 76-77, June.
• Announcement, 2017, Complex constructs from the simple Microscope, lecture-demonstration to Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Whipple museum, Cambridge University, (on-line abstract), July.
• Report, 2017, plenary lecture announcement: Revelation and the living cell, a perplexing past and phenomenal future, mmc2017 brochure [supplement to] Microscopy and Analysis 30: 11, July.
• BJF, 2017, Revelation and the living cell, a perplexing past and phenomenal future, plenary lecture to Microscopy and Microscience 2017, Royal Microscopical Society, Manchester: Convention Centre, 1700-1730h, 7 July.
• Peckham, Michelle, 2017, From the President [with brief report of Brian J Ford plenary address at mmc2017 conference], InFocus - Proceedings of the Royal Microscopical Society 47: 74.
• BJF, 2017, Critical Focus No 28: The Latest Tally: 100 lectures and counting, The Microscope, 65 (1): 21-31.
• Pool, Rebecca, 2017, Life through a Microscope [profile], Microscopy and Microanalysis 32: 6-8, October.
• O'Leary, Colum (2017) [comments on "Professor Brian Ford's thought-provoking lecture"] InFocus, Proceedings of the Royal Microscopical Society, 48: 64-75.
• Antonio Mart nez Ron, 2016, El microscopio perdido de van Leeuwenhoek, Vozpopuli: 24 October.
• Announcement, 2016, Scannning Electron Microscopy course at McCrone Research Institute, Chicago, October 31 - November 4, [reproduces image of elder sections cut by Leeuwnhoek and published in 1982], Chicago: McCrone Research Institute, October.
• Coquyt, Tiemen, 2016, [cites Brian J Ford's Leeuwenhoek Legacy and The Revealing Lens in] The Identification of a Silver Microscope of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Bulletin of Scientific Instrument Society 130: 30-39, September.
• BJF, 2017, Lecturing on Microscopy, Microscopy Today doi:10.1017/2 S1551929517000426, September.
• Report, 2016, Exponse en Santiago unha das colecci ns de microscopios m is importantes do mundo, Televisi n de Galicia: 9 August.
• BJF, 2016, Leeuwenhoek goes under the Scanning Electron Microscope, presentation to Inter/Micro 2016, Chicago: McCrone Research Institute, 8 June.
• BJF, 2016, Ada Smith Memorial lecture: The Truth about Three New Leeuwenhoek Microscopes, Illustrated presentation to Microscopical Society of Southern California: 1900h, Wildwood School, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, January.
• Announcement, 2016, Finding New Microscopes from the Dawn of Science, lecture announcement for 3 April 2016, Science Centre Singapore, February.
• Annoucement, 2016, Ada Smith Memorial lecture: The Truth about Three New Leeuwenhoek Microscopes, Illustrated presentation to Microscopical Society of Southern California: 1900h, Wildwood School, Santa Monica, California, January.
• BJF, 2016, Genuine or copy? Novel methods of authenticating new Leeuwenhoek microscopes, Microscopy and Analysis, Digital image analysis supplement: S9-S13, January/February.
• BJF, 2015, Leeuwenhoek Microscopes, Mystery and Mischief, The Microscope 63 (3): 131-142, [published January 2016].
• BJF, 2015, Recording Three Leeuwenhoek Microscopes, InFocus, Proceedings of the Royal Microscopical Society 40: 30-43, December 2015.
• BJF, 2015, Surprise of the Century Three More Leeuwenhoek Microscopes, Microscopy Today, 23: 38-43. doi:10.1017/S1551929515000978.
• Kleanthous, Colin, and Armitage, Judith P., 2015, cite Brian J Ford's Leeuwenhoek Legacy in The bacterial cell envelope, Philosophical Transactions B, 370, 1679, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0019, 15 September.
• Report, 2015, La lente que abri los ojos al mundo, La Voz de Galicia television, 17 September.
• Report, 2015, A o Internacional de la Luz 2015, Internatiomal Year of Light festival announcement, 19 August.
• Report, 2015, Tom s Camacho, director m dico de Vithas Lab, adquiere el microscopio m s antiguo del mundo, Vithas Hospital Report, 16 July.
• Report, 2015, Muestra del microscopio m s antiguo del mundo, El Correo Gallego: 43, 16 July.
• Suarez, R., 2015, La Gioconda de los microscopios, Atlantico: 8, 16 July.
• Report, 2015, Microscopio hist rico en Vigo, La Voz de Galicia: L7, 16 July.
• Lago, Irene, 2015, producer of: Dr Tom s Camacho's Leeuwenhoek microscope with mayoral reception in Vigo, Spain. Localia Vigo TV, 16 July.
• Nogueira, A., 2015, Un m dico vigu s compra en internet uno de los microscopios m s valiosos del mundo, Faro de Vigo: 8, 16, July. [See also online version.]
• Report, 2015, Vigo expor un dos dez microscopios m is importantes da microbiolox a, Noticieirogalego, 15 July.
• Report, 2015, Vigo expor un dos dez microscopios "m is importantes da historia da microbiolox a no mundo", Xornal Vigo, 15 July.
• Report, 2015, Vigo expondr uno de los diez microscopios m s importantes de la historia de la microbiolog a, La Voz de Galicia on-line, 15 July.
• Report, 2015, Vigo acoger uno de los modelos de microscopio de Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek, Radio Vigo annoucement, 15 July.
• Gimeno, Maite, 2015, Un vigu s se hace en eBay con el microscopio m s antiguo del mundo, El Correo Gallego: 42, 14 July. [Online version at elCorreoGallego site.]
• Robertson, Lesley A., 2015, And then there were 12 - distinguishing Van Leeuwenhoek microscopes from old or new copies, FEMS Microbiology Letters, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnv113, 13 July.
• L pez-Go i, Ignacio, 2015, Os microscopios de van Leeuwenhoek, Departamento de Fisica e Quimica blog, 12 July 2015.
• L pez-Go i, Ignacio, 2015, Los microscopios de van Leeuwenhoek, Investigation y Ciena, SciLogs, 7 July 2015.
• BJF, 2015, New protocol for old microscope, Laboratory News: 20-21, 3 July.
• Allis, Jeremy, 2015, interviews Brian J Ford on Leeuwenhoek microscopes, Lunchtime Live programme, BBC Cambridgeshire, 1230-1300h, 23 June.
• Robertson, Lesley, 2015, Finding more van Leeuwenhoek microscopes, Delft School of Microbiology blog, 23 June.
• BJF, 2015, Are New Leeuwenhoek Microscopes Awaiting Discovery? [See also video of live presentation] Inter/Micro 2015 conference, McCrone Research Institute, Chicago, 1000h, 6 June.
• Jha, Alok, 2015, report on new Leeuwenhoek microscope found, News at Ten, ITV London, 2230h, 3 June.
• Keulemans. Maarten, 2015, Delftse 'moddermicroscoop' mogelijk echte van Leeuwenhoek, Der Volkskrant: 7, 29 May. [See also on-line version, 29 May].
• Elliott, Chris, 2015, Discoverer of an Unseen World, Cambridge News: 17, 27 May.
• Elliott, Chris, 2015, Cambridge professor Brian J Ford pioneers work on Leeuwenhoek microscope, Cambridge News on-line, 26 May.
• BJF, 2015, The mystery of the microsocope in mud, Nature 521: 423, 23 May.
• BJF, 2015, Two new Leeuwenhoek microscopes? The Microscope 63 (1): 35-36, May. ball
• BJF, 2015, The incredible, invisible world of Robert Hooke, The Microscope 63 (1): 23-34, May.
• Report, 2015, Researcher photographs Leeuwenhoek animalcules after 340 years, Blastr site, 22 May.
• Coughlan, Andy, 2015, Leeuwenhoek's animalcules just as he saw them 340 years ago, New Scientist online, 20 May [see also: online version].
• Monro, Philip and Prime, Philip, 2015, Comment letters (re Leeuwenhoek microscopes article), Laboratory News: 3, March.
• Report, 2015, El vendedor de pa os y el mundo microsc pico, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Cienciaes web-site, May.
• Sanderson, Michael J., Ian Smith, Ian Parker, Martin D Bootman, 2015, cite Antony van Leeuwenhoek, microscopist and visionary scientist [in] Fluorescence microscopy, Cold Spring Harbor Protocols K 01/2014; 2014(10):pdb.top071795.
• lgaxiola, 2015, Spanish version of above article: Leeuwenhoek anim lculos , como l vio hace 340 a os, Social News Latino, 21 May.
• Lane, Nick, 2015, discusses Brian J Ford's Leeuwnhoek research in The Unseen World, reflections on Leeuwenhoek (1677) 'Concerning little animals', Philosophical Transactions B, 370: 1666, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0344, 6 March.
• BJF, 2015, Special Report: Deepening mystery of the disappearing microscope, Laboratory News: 6, 10 February. See also on-line version.
• Heath, J. P., and Parmenter, C., 2014, Thousands Drawn to M&M (with report of Brian J Ford plenary address), Microscopy and Analysis September/October issue: 22.
• BJF, 2014, Critical Focus 18: Breaking the Myths of Microscopy, The Microscope 62 (2): 63-73, 2014. (published September 2014).
• BJF, 2014, Conference report on-line, 20 August.
• BJF, 2014, Living Images from the Birth of Microscopy, Plenary Address to Microscopy & Microanalysis conference, Hartford Conference Center, Connecticut, 1115-1200h, 3 August.
• BJF, 2014, Living Images from the Birth of Microscopy, Microscopy Today 22 (04): 2-5, July.
• BJF, 2014, Lecture: Surprising Future for the Simple Microscope, 1515-1540h, 2 June, McCrone Research Institute, Chicago.
• BJF, 2013, The Case of the Disappearing Microscope, Laboratory News companion series Microscopy and Imaging: 9-10, June.
• BJF, 2013, The first Microscopes - What could they truly reveal? invited after-dinner presentation for South Eastern Microscopy Society, Greenville SC, 1200-1240h, 23 May.
• BJF, 2013, The Birth of Microscopic Vision, illustrated lecture for Georgia Microscopical Society, Merritt College, Atlanta GA, 1930-2030h, 15 May.
• BJF, 2011, Critical Focus (5): The Leeuwenhoek specimens, The Microscope 59 (1): 11-19.
• Ball, Philip, 2011, Early microscopes offered sharp vision, Nature online, doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.116, 4 March. [Link to Nature, see also: slideshow from Nature News].
• BJF, 2011, interviewed on Leeuwenhoek by Tony Hill [in] Genius Unrecognised, producer Peter Everett, BBC Radio Four, 1445-1500h, 27 February [interview commences at 4'50"].
• Fukuoka, Shinichi, 2011, Japanese interview with Brian J Ford about Leeuwenhoek (with colour pictures), ANA Magazine, Tokyo, Japan: 114-116, February. [PDF files available: page 1, page 2].
• BJF, 2011, reviews The Quest for the Invisible - Microscopy in the Enlightenment, by Marc. J Radcliffe, ISBN 978-0-7546-6150-4, xii + 315 pp, Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, Biologist magazine.
• Wilson, Jill, 2011, Brian J Ford micrograph with Robert Brown's microscope as picture for September, Royal Microscopical Society 2011 Calendar, January.
• BJF, 2010, reviews The Quest for the Invisible - Microscopy in the Enlightenment, by Marc. J Radcliffe, ISBN 978-0-7546-6150-4, xii + 315 pp, Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, Biologist (in press).
• BJF, 2010, Critical Focus column (3): Censoring the Cell, how the Microscope is abused by the Media, The Microscope 58 (3): 121-129.
• BJF, 2010, Revolutionary Insights - the Dawn of Microscopical Investigation, illustrated presentation with videomicrographs to the Royal Society, 1330-1430h, 29 October.
• Announcement, 2010, Revolutionary Insights - the Dawn of Microscopical Investigation, illustrated presentation wth videomicrographs to the Royal Society, 1330-1430h, 29 October.
• Lebbad, Marianne, 2010, Includes single-lens study of Giardia [in] defence of thesis: Molecular Diagnosis and Characterization of Two Intestinal Protozoa: Entamoeba histolytica and Giardia intestinalis. Department of Parasitology, Mycology and Water, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, 24 September.
• BJF, 2010, reviews The Quest for the Invisible Microscopy in the Enlightenment, by Marc. J Radcliffe, ISBN 978-0-7546-6150-4, xii + 315 pp, Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, Biologist, (in press).
• Williams, Sarah, 2010, extract from Brian J Ford's Leeuwenhoek Legacy [in] Howard Hughes Medical Institute publication, California.
• BJF, 2010, presentation for Inter Micro 10: An Evening with Brian: Censoring the Cell and Banishing the Microscope (includes videomicrographs with Leeuwenhoek design of microscopes), McCrone Research Instute, Chicago, 1900-2000h, 12 July.
• BJF, 2010, Expert Bookshelf, Cells and Microbes, Focus science magazine: 89, March.
• BJF, 2009, Early Days of the Microscope, illustrated presentation to West Sussex History of Medicine Society, St Richards Hospital, Chichester, 1100-1200h, 17 October.
• Silva, Jo o Alcindo Martins, 2009, paper reproducing micrographs of erythrocytes obtained with Leeuwenhoek lens, and microscope image [in press].
• BJF, 2009, Did Physics matter to the Pioneers of Microscopy? [chapter for] Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics 158: 27-87, Editor Professor Peter W Hawkes, New York: Academic Press.
• BJF, 2009, presentation for Inter Micro 09: A Unique Leeuwenhoek Microscope Sale in London, 1630-1700h, Monday, July 6, Crone Research Instute, Chicago.
• Laughlin, Gary, 2009, Rare Leeuwenhoek bids for history, The Microscope 57 (1): ii, June.
• Report, 2009, Microscope sale breaks every Record, Laboratory News: 6, May [see online version].
• H nggi, Peter, 2008, web site reproducing micrographs of erythrocytes obtained with Leeuwenhoek lens, and microscope image, [on] http://kvond.wordpress.com/spinozas-foci/
• BJF, 2008, Leeuwenhoek and the Birth of Microscopy, report in Medical Sciences Historical Society Newsletter, 39: 2, Autumn edition.
• Christensen, S. M., Kunding, A. H., and Stamou, D., 2008, include Brian J Ford studies of Leeuwenhoek microscope and erythrocytes, Det nye biokemiske laboratorium, Akyuel Naturvidenskab:21, September.
• BJF, 2008, Leeuwenhoek and the Birth of Microscopy, Opening Lecture to Medical Sciences Historical Society summer conference, London: Institute of Biomedical Science, 31 May: 1400-1500h.
• BJF, 2008, Birth of the Microscope, Open Lecture, Brabourne Lecture Theatre, Keynes College, University of Kent, Chairman Professor John Baldock, 30 May: 1800-1900h.
• BJF, 2008, The First Microscope Detective: Retracing the origins of forensic microscopy, Keynote address to California Association of Criminalists, San Diego: 0900-0945h, 7 May.
• Jeffrey and Ross, 2008, include comparison of cells viewed through 2 different types of microscope (from example: Leeuwenhoek & moder Leitz microscope images of same cells) Source: http://www.brianjford.com/wav4pix.htm [in] N.S.W. Biology, Australia/New Zealand: Macmillan, A$69.95.
• Wheelis, M., 2008, publishes Brian J Ford micrograph of human blood under Leeuwenhoek microscope [in] Microbiology, Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
• BJF, 2007, Celebrating Leeuwenhoek's 375th birthday - what could his microscopes reveal? InFocus magazine, 8: 20-35, December.
• BJF, 2007, Observing the Invisible - celebrating Leeuwenhoek's 375 anniversary, inaugural presidential address to Cambridge Society for the Application of Research, with Professor Sir Sam Edwards in the chair, Churchill College, Cambridge, 1930-2100h, 22 October. (Video recording in archive).
• BJF, 2007, The Microscope enters the Field of Forensics, Illumin8: 3, Olympus, October.
• BJF, 2007, Enlightening Neuroscience, Microscopes and Microscopy in Eighteenth Century Neurology [chapter in] Whitaker, Harry; Smith, C. U. M. & Finger, Stan, (editors) Brain, Mind and Medicine: essays in 18th century neuroscience: 29-41, Springer.
• Wheelis, M., 2007, publishes micrographs of cork and blood smear with Leeuwenhoek microscope [in] Introduction to Microbiology, also Instructor's Toolkit (digital form), Sudbury MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers, Inc.
• BJF, 2007, Antony van Leeuwenhoek [chapter in] The Great Naturalists editor Rob Huxley, Natural History Museum, London: Thames & Hudson.
• BJF, 2007, Antony van Leeuwenhoek's Microscope and the discovery of Giardia, Microscopy and Analysis: 5-7, July.
• Lecture at Inter Micro 2007, Chicago: BJF, 2007, Production and use of a bead-lens Microscope, workshop at McCrone Research Institute, 12 July. cCrone Research Institute, Chicago, Illinois.
• Wakelam, S., 2007, Two Men from Delft, BBC Radio 3 Drama, 2015-2130h, 4 February.
  Antony Van Leeuwenhooek ...... Stephen Tompkinson
  Christiaan Huygens ...... Alex Jennings
  Maria Van Leeuwenhoek ...... Emma Noakes
  Elisabeth Vermeer ...... Alex Tregear
  Music by Sylvia Hallett.
  Viol played by Vanessa Coode.
  Directed and produced by Jeremy Mortimer.
  Link on http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/dramaon3/pip/9vvpq/ 'see what van Leeuwenhoek was seeing through his microscope' leads to http://www.brianjford.com/wav-spf.htm.
• BJF, 2006, Imaging of cell structures, specimen sections and algae using single-lens systems, 1130-1200h, presentation at Department of Microbiology, University of New South Wales.
• Audesirk, Teresa; Audesirk, Graham & Byers, Bruce, 2006, include Brian J Ford micrograph of erythrocytes through Leeuwenhoek microscope [in] Life on Earth, 4th edition, ISBN 0131860437, New Jersey: Pearson Educational.
• BJF, 2006, Pioneering observations of parasitic protozoa, PowerPoint presentation at BTF Microbiology, Sydney, Australia, 1130-1220h, 27 February.
• BJF, 2005, The Discovery of Giardia, The Microscope 53 (4): 147-153 (published in 2006; based on opening address at Amsterdam conference, 2004).
• Vellinga, Willem-Pier, 2004, published BJF Leeuwenhoek micrographs in microscopy coursebook, eindhoven University of Technology.
• Paustian, Timothy, 2004, publishes BJF Leeuwenhoek micrographs in microbiology text for Atomic Dog (www.atomicdog.com).
• BJF, 2003, interviewed on Leeuwenhoek, Inventors Imperfect, BBC Radio 4, 1100-1130h, 29 October. [Sound file in archive].
• BJF, 2003, Scientific Illustration chapter with 24 references to Leeuwenhoek [in] The Cambridge History of Science, Edited by Roy Porter, Volume 4 The Eighteenth Century, Chapter 24, ISBN: 0521572436.
• BJF, 2003, interviewed on Leeuwenhoek by Adam Hart-Davis [in] New Worldes, What the Stuarts Did for Us (repeat), BBC 2, 2030-2100h, 26 June.
• Rudzik, Eileen Pyne, 2003 (ed) includes microscope images by Brian J Ford [in] Flow of Matter in Living Systems, Pearson Education Canada.
• Coppedge, David, 2003, includes image of Leeuwenhoek microscope [in] Microscopic Magnificence, Christian History, 76, vol XXI (4): 42-43.
• Bishop, L M, 2003, includes Leeuwenhoek cork section imaged by Brian J Ford through a scanning electron microscope [in] How to win the Nobel Prize, notes from an Unexpected Life in Science, Harvard: University Press [in press].
• BJF, 2003, Using the Digital Microscope, reprinted (with corrections) ISBN 0-9543595-0-X, Cambridge: Rothay House.
• BJF, 2003, Defnuddio'r Microsgop Digidol, Welsh translation by Huw Roberts, ISBN 0-9543595-1-8, 32pp, Cambridge: Rothay House.
• Report, 2002, Scientist to appear on TV show (with photograph), Whittlesey Cambs Times: 3, 8 November.
• Corliss, John O., 2002, citations of Brian J Ford Single Lens and Leeuwenhoek Legacy [in] A Salute to Antony van Leeuwenhoek of Delft, Protist, 153: 177-190, June.
• BJF, 2002, Using the Digital Microscope, London: Nesta Manual for Science Year, May.
• BJF, 2001, Hidden Secrets in the Royal Society Archive, (chapter in) Biological Collections and Biodiversity: 27-42, ed. B. S. Rushton, P. Hackney and C. R. Tyrie, London: Westbury Publishing, November.
• BJF, 2001, Blood smear viewed with a van Leeuwenhoek lens, magazine front cover, Microscopy Today, No 01-5, caption details p5, June.
• BJF, 2001, The Royal Society and the Microscope, Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 55 (1): 1-25, January.
• Report, 2001, BJF award at Georgia Microscopical Society (with photograph) Biobits: 5, January.
• Ratcliff, M., 2000, cites BJF in Microscopy, 1982 and Single Lens, 1985 [in] Science in Context, 13: 93.
• Parnes, O, 2000, cites Single Lens, 1985 [in] Science in Context, 13: 71.
• McCrone, 2000, reports Brian J Ford at Inter Micro, The Microscope, 48 (3): 135, 138, 145.
• BJF, 2000, The microscope and the birth of bioscience, Cavendish Laboratory seminar, University of Cambridge, 1430-1530h, 27 October.
• BJF, 2000, Digitised photomicrographs of human blood smear and an original Leeuwnhoke cork section imaged through the Utrecht microscope by van Leeduwenhoek, Cambridgeshire: from Rothay nHouse, 10 October.
• BJF, 2000, Revelations of the First Microscopes, illustrated lecture, New York Microscopical Society, New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1900-2000h, 28 September.
• BJF, 2000, Tracing the Roots of Modern Bioscience, illustrated lecture, Georgia Microscopical Society, Atlanta: Fernbank Science Center, 1900-2000h, 27 September.
• Report, 2000, August Kohler Award (with colour picture), Microscopy and Analysis: 55, September.
• Applebaum, Wilbur (ed), 2000, cites BJF's Leeuwenhoek Legacy in Encyclopaedia of the Scientific Revolution: 357-8, New York: Garland.
• Report, 2000, British win US microscopy award again (with colour picture), Laboratory News, Microscopy and Imaging: 3, August.
• Anon, 2000, BJF receiving August Kohler award, News of Members, Biobits: 6, July.
• Anon, 2000, Noted British microscopist, Microscopy Today, 00 (5): 5.
• BJF, 2000, Home-made microscopes (video presentation) Inter Micro 2000, Chicago: McCrone Research Institute, 27 June 1230-1250h.
• BJF, 2000, The Amateurs who Give us Science (seminar), London: Institute of Cultural Research, 1430-1630h, 27 May.
• BJF, 2000, Hidden secrets in the Royal Society library, illustrated lecture to Friends of the University Library, Cambridge, 13 May, 1100-1200h.
• BJF, 2000, Eighteenth-century Scientific Publishing (chapter in) Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors, ISBN: 1 85928 233 4, London: Thornton and Tully, March.
• BJF, 2000, Recreating the Origins of Modern Biology, 120th Anniversary and Millennium Lecture, Manchester Microscopical Society, University of Manchester Medical School. 1900-2100h, 17 February.
• BJF, 2000, interviewed on Leeuwenhoek and bacteria, High Resolution, BBC Scotland, 28 January.
• BJF, 2000, Witnessing the Birth of the Microscope, [chapter in] Yearbook of Science and the Future 2000, ISBN 0-85229-702-5, Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, pp 192-209.
• BJF, 1999, reviews Ruestow, Edward G., The Microscope in the Dutch Republic: the Shaping of Discovery, Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-521-47078-1, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 19, 3: 445-446.
• BJF, 1999, How Robert Brown observed Brownian Movement, lecture to Southern California Microsopical Society, Beverley Hills, 2000-2130h, 13 October.
• BJF, 1999, Pioneering microscopists and their simple microscopes, lecture to Pacific Congress of American Chemical Society, Los Angeles, 1130-1200h, 7 October.
• Jardine, Lisa, 1999, publishes BJF images of Leeuwenhoek research in Ingenious Pursuits, London: Little, Brown, September.
• BJF, 1999, The earliest days of the microscope [chapter in] Yearbook of Science and the Future 2000, ISBN 0-85229-702-5, Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica.
• BJF, 1999, Head to head debate with Matthew Freeman, The Guardian, Saturday review: 2, 11 December.
• Irwin, Aisling, 1999, Amateurs are 'the pioneers in science' (report of issues raised in SAR lecture), Daily Telegraph: 10, 7 December.
• BJF, 1999, A Thousand years of Science, millennium lecture to Society for the Application of Research, Churchill College Cambridge, 2030-2200h, 6 December.
• Announcement, 1999, BJF to present 'an evening with Brian' in Chicago, The Microscope, 47 (3): 179.
• Anon, 1999, Announcement of 'An Evening with Brian' at Inter Micro 2000, The Microscope 47 (2): 123, October.
• McCrone, Walter, 1999, comments on BJF presentations at Inter Micro, The Microscope and Ecology (p107), An Evening with Brian, A Thousand Years of Science (pp109-110), GMO's and public perceptions (p 117); comments on 'microscopists' heaven' with BJF published papers, The Microscope 47 (2): 102, October.
• Hirsch, D. L., 1999, report of BJF presentation on Brownian movement, Journal of the Southern California Microscopical Society, 4 (10): 210.
• Prescott, Lansing; Harley, John, and Klein, Donald, 1999, cite BJF books and Scientific American paper, 1998 (q.v.) in Leeuwenhoek description in Microbiology: 15, New York: WCB McGraw Hill.
• BJF, 1999, reviews Ruestow, Edward G., The Microscope in the Dutch Republic: the Shaping of Discovery, Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-521-47078-1, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 19, 3: 445-446.
• Madigan, Michael; Martinko, John and Parker, Jack, 1999, include colour micrograph of Leeuwenhoek blood by BJF in Biology of Microorganisms: 19, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
• BJF, 1999, Pioneering microscopists and their simple microscopes, lecture to Pacific Congress of American Chemical Society, Los Angeles, 1130-1200h, 7 October.
• Moss, Gaylord, 1999, Members Profile: Brian J Ford (with photographs), Microscopical Society of Southern California Newsletter, 4 (9): 182-188, September.
• Jardine, Lisa, 1999, publishes BJF images of Leeuwenhoek research in Ingenious Pursuits, London: Little, Brown, September.
• Note also: McCrone, W., Brian J Ford at Inter Micro (with photographs), opening address; Lee, Richard, on BJF's orbiting microscope and possible low-power video microscopes; and Barnett, Peter, on the address by BJF to the San Francisco Microsopical Society, ibid.
• BJF, 1999, Lectures at Inter Micro 99, An Evening with Brian, A Thousand Years of Science, 1900h, 28 June, Chicago: McCrone Research Institute.
• Announcement, 1999, 'Brian J Ford, famous author and scientist, focuses attention on the cycles of science', advertisement for Inter Micro 99, Microscopy Today, 99-3: 23, April.
• BJF, 1999, Illustrated lecture: Stepping back in time - how the first scientists viewed their specimens, Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1 February.
• Bianchi, Constantino, 1999, (editor) includes BJF images of erythrocytes and taminal hairs, with microscopes by Brown and Leeuwenhoek, in Vedere è Sapere, CD-ROM con Memovisus, Milano: Carlo Erba OTC, April.
• BJF, 1998, How the Microscope was Born, (presentation) London: Royal Institution discussion evening, 1 December, 1800-1900h.
• BJF, 1998, Recreating the Birth of Modern Science, (lecture to Kelvin Club), Cambridge: Peterhouse, 17 November, 1900h.
• Laughlin, Gary, 1998, refers to BJF in review of Octavo edition of Micrographia, The Microscope, 46 (3): 188.
• Announcement, 1998, 'An Evening with Brian' at Inter Micro, Chicago, June 1999, advertised in The Microscope, 46 (3): 168.
• Palm, L., 1998, (cites BJF Isis review of Ruestow, q.v., in) Marian Fournier's The Fabric of Life, Isis, 89 (3): 543-544.
• Bader, Paul, 1998, screening of BJF blood preparation with Leeuwenhoek lens, Local Heroes (series 4), BBC Television, BBC 2, 2000h, 21st September.
• Anon, 1998, announcement, Brian J Ford to lecture on How the Microscope was Born, Tuesday 1 December 1998, London: Royal Institution, programme booklet.
• BJF, 1998, Lectures at Inter Micro 98: Recollections of Clifford Dobell, 11 August. Chicago: McCrone Research Institute.
• BJF, 1998, Can it be thirty years ago? Micro Notes2000: 2 (2): 32, August.
• BJF, 1998, Le prime immagini al microscopio, Le Scienze, 360: 88-91, August, (Italian translation from Scientific American).
• Loro, B., 1998, (quotes BJF research in) Photography with microlenses, Journal of the Microscopical Society of Southern California, 3 (7): 127-131, July.
• BJF, 1998, [in] Scientific American (Japanese edition), 7: 72-75, July, (translation from Scientific American).
• BJF, 1998, [in] Scientific American (Chinese edition), 7: 40-43, July, (translation from Scientific American).
• Carmichael, Stephen, 1998, Were the first Microscopes really that Good? Microscopy Today, 98-5: 3.
• BJF, 1998, Le prime immagini al microscopio, Le Scienza, 30 July, (Italian translation from Scientific American).
• BJF, 1998, Premières images au microscope, Pour la Science, 249: 10-13, July, (French translation from Scientific American).
• BJF, 1998, Premières images au microscope, Pour la Science, 249: 10-13, July, (translation from Scientific American, April 1998).
• BJF, 1998, Frühe Mikroskopie, Spektrum der Wißenshaft: 68-71, June. (Translation from Scientific American, April 1998).
• BJF, 1998, [in] Robert Hooke, an Introduction, Hooke's Micrographia, CD-ROM by Octavo, Palo Alto.
• BJF, 1998, The Earliest Views, Scientific American (British edition), 278 (4): 42-45, April.
• BJF, 1998, The Earliest Views, Scientific American (American edition), 278 (4): 50-53, April.
• Gold, Herbert, 1998, reports forthcoming BJF article in Scientific American, Journal of the Microscopical Society of Southern California, 3 (3): 29, March.
• Jones, David, 1998, 18th Century and 19th century Microscopes reappraised [cites BJF, 1989] Microscopy and Analysis, B>64: 9-11, March.
• Jones, David, 1998, cites BJF's history of microscopy, Biologist 45 (1): 41-43, February.
• Report, 1998, refers to award of Dr August Köhler medal (in) Society News, The Linnean, 13 (4): 3, January.
• Hirsch, David L., 1997, Standing Applause (report on BJF lecture), Microscopical Society of Southern California Newsletter, 2 (11): 227, November.
• Delly, John, 1997, (cites BJF in) Hand-colored Microscopical Illustrations, The Microscope, 45 (4): 177-190.
• Announcement, 1997, Brian J Ford, a spectacular event, Microscopical Society of Southern California Newsletter, 2 (10): 208, October.
• BJF, 1997, Antony van Leeuwenhoek and the Single Lens Microscope, San Francisco Microscopical Society and California Association of Criminalists lecture, Berkeley, 2000h, 30 October.
• Hirsch, David L., 1997, Brian J Ford to speak on October 28 (in secretary's report) , Microscopical Society of Southern California Newsletter, 2 (10): 201, October.
• BJF, 1997, Analysis of Leeuwenhoek's specimens for the microscope, Microscopical Society of Southern California lecture, Los Angeles, 1900h, 28 October.
• McCrone, Walter, 1997, reports BJF Inter Micro preentations: Award of August Köhler medal (p99), Leeuwenhoek's name (p109), The Microscope, 45 (3): 99-109.
• Report, 1997, BJF recipient of Köhler medal at Chicago, Proceedings of the Royal Microscopical Society, 32 (3): 192, September.
• BJF, 1997, Anton, Antony or Antoni? What was Leeuwenhoek's name? Lecture at Inter Micro 97: 0930h, 23 July, Chicago: McCrone Research Institute.
• Jones, D, 1997, [cites BJF on microscopy in] Microscopes Down the Centuries, 8pp, June.
• BJF, 1997, Lecture at Padova University, Earliest days of the Optical Microscope, 1530h, 2 June.
• BJF, 1997, Lecture at Birkbeck College, London University, The Birth of Crystallography and the Dawn of Duplicity, 1300h, 12 May.
• BJF, 1997, interviewed by Hisashi Shimizu and Francois Ho Van on microorganisms and health, Japanese Television, 1400-1600h, 8 May.
• Hull, D., (1997) cites BJF's Leeuwenhoek Legacy [in] Robert Hooke, a fractographic study of Kettering stone, Notes & Records of the Royal Society, 51 (1): 45-55.
• Report, 1997, Dr August Köhler Award Recipient, Brian J Ford (with photograph), Micro-Notes 1 (1): rear cover picture, February.
• Fournier, Marian, 1997, (cites BJF's Single Lens, q.v., in) The Fabric of Life - Microscopy in the Seventeenth Century: 158, 164, 249, Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.
• Wormald, Mark, 1996, cites BJF's Revealing Lens (1973) and Single Lens (1985) in Microscopy and Semiotic in Middlemarch, 19th Century Literature, 50: 501-510.
• Rowntree, Frank, 1996, review of Leeuwenhoek Legacy, Micspace book review, August.
• BJF, 1996, Hidden Secrets of the Royal Society Archive [illustrated lecture], Systemics and Museum Collections, Linnean Society Regional Meeting, Belfast: Ulster Museum, 1430h, 28 August.
• BJF, 1996, Illustrations of Leeuwenhoek's specimens and correspondence, Exhibition on Archives of the Scientific Revolution, London: Royal Society, April-June.
• Report, 1996, Brian J Ford as Leeuwenhoek in Chicago (with photograph), Focus - New York Academy of Sciences Newsletter: 15, February.
• BJF, 1996, Developing Science, a Revisionist View, Kew Science Innovation Lecture at Jodrell Lecture Theatre, Kew Gardens, 1100h, 6 March.
• BJF, 1995, Hidden Secrets of the Microscope, illustrated lecture to British Association, Newcastle University, 1600h, 13 September.
• BJF, 1995, First Steps in Experimental Microscopy, Leeuwenhoek as Practical Scientist, The Microscope, 43 (2): 47-57, plus cover illustration.
• Hershey, Erica, 1995, Microscope-maker discovers tiny animals (cites BJF on Leeuwenhoek), Susquehana Times and Magazine Old News: 4-5, July-August.
• Announcement, 1995, BJF to speak on Hidden Secrets of the Microscope, Discovery and Invention (Newcastle Symposium Programme): 28, London: British Association for the Advancement of Science, July.
• BJF, 1995, Lecture at Inter Micro 95, i) An Evening with Brian - Visit of Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Chicago: McCrone Research Institute, 1900h, 10 July.
• Daerr, Nancy, 1995, announces Brian J Ford Lectures for Inter-Micro 95: Guest Appearance - Antony van Leeuwenhoek, 11 July, Chicago: McCrone Research Institute Program, May.
• BJF, 1995, On the Commonplace Nature of Scientific History (Chairman's Address), A Matter of Life, Institute of Biology History Sector Meeting at University of Birmingham, 1000h, 29 April.
• BJF, 1995, Online summary of the Leeuwenhoek specimens 1981 research project, from Cambridgeshgire: Rothay House, 20 April.
• Raven, P. H., and Johnson, B. B., 1995, Pictures of Leeuwenhoek microscope and specimen [in] Understanding Biology: 65, 3rd edition, Boston: Wm. C. Brown Publishers.
• Meyer, Klaus, 1995, [discusses BJF Leeuwenhoek research in] Die suche nach Leeuwenhoeks Arbeitsmikroskop [from] Die Gemeiniße des Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Soest, February.
• Magner, Lois, 1995, discusses Brian J Ford's Leeuwenhoek research [in] A History of the Life Sciences: 152-154, New York: Marcel Dekker Inc.
• Boutibonnes, Philippe, 1994, cites BJF, passim, [illustrations] du liège; vision au microscope; échantillons; schéma du microscope; gravure des rotifères; fabrication des lentilles; machine à polir des lentilles [in] van Leeuwenhoek, l'exercice du regard, Un savant, une époque, Paris: Belin.
• Daerr, Nancy, 1994, BJF at Inter Micro 94: An Evening with Brian and The Shape of Things Past, 18-19 July. Symposium Program, Chicago: McCrone Research, June.
• James, J., 1994, Van Leeuwenhoek's Discoveries of 1677-1678 - A Look Too Far, Micron, 25 (1): 1-4, "Observations were made by holding the microscope close to the eye and illuminating it with a restricted cone of light (Brian J Ford, British Medical Journal, 1982, 285: 1822-1824)".
• BJF, 1994, The Pioneer Microscopists' View of Biology [poster presentation, reprint on file], London: The Linnean Society Conversazione, 15 June, 1930h. See also Conversazione Programme: 8, June.
• Bridson, Gavin, 1994, Cites Brian J Ford books [in] The History of Natural History, an Annotated Bibliography: 111, 369, New York, Garland.
• Silver, Sue, 1994, IOB Stand proves a great success at Lab-Ex, (includes report of Brian J Ford at Laboratory Exhibition, with photograph), Biologist, 41 (1): 45, February.
• BJF, 1993, Special Feature: Early Images of Science, Microscopy and Image Analysis [supplement to] Laboratory News: 8, June.
• Hobbs, Heather, 1993, (editor) Museum of Scientific Equipment (describes items above from BJF collection), Laboratory Update: 68, October.
• BJF, 1993, Exhibit of micrographs:
  • Simple microscope study of Saccharomyces cerevisiæ
  • Plus antique books and microscopes.
  • Tuber melanospora under the Utrecht microscope
  • Human sperm in single lens microscope
  • Leeuwenhoek view of cork section, preparation of elder pith
  Museum of Science, Laboratory Exhibition, London: Olympia, 5-7 October.
• BJF, 1993, El Nacimiento de la Microscopia, Mundo Cientifico, 132: 116-124, February.
• Gest, H., 1993, Microbes, Fleas and the great Chain of Being, refers to BJF in Nature, (1981) 294: 407, and Single Lens (1985), Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 36 (2): 184-193.
• Mendelsohn, Everett, 1992, Discusses BJF work on Leeuwenhoek in Bud, R., & Cozens, S., Invisible connections, Instruments, Institutions and Science: 5-22, Bellingham, USA: SPIE Optical Engineering Press.
• Illman, John, 1992, [quotes BJF, Revelation and the Single Lens, 1982, British Medical Journal, 285: 1822-1824, December; reprinted as pp 1-7] The Mad Hatter and Arctic Willy, Health: 17, The Guardian, 29 December.
• McCrone, Walter, 1992 reports BJF lecture at Inter-Micro 92, 1): The Discovery of Yeast with Early Microscopes, The Microscope, 40 (3): 185.
• Creese, R., 1992, The Leeuwenhoek Legacy [review], Postgraduate Medical Journal 68 (804): 848.
• BJF, 1992, From Dilettante to Diligent Experimenter, a Reappraisal of Leeuwenhoek as microscopist and investigator, Biology History, 5 (3), December.
• BJF, 1992, La Naissance de la Microscopie [lead article, with illustrations in colour], Paris: La Recherche , 23 (249): 1370-1378, Decembre.
• BJF, 1992, [lectures] ii) The Use of the Simple Microscope in research on Yeast, 1530h, Inter-Micro 92, McCormick Center, Chicago, Illinois, 14 July.
• BJF, 1992, Hunterian Society lecture: Hunter, Home and the Leeuwenhoek Microscopes. Fifth Dinner Meeting of the Hunterian Society, London Press Centre, 18 May, 2030h. Transcribed in Transations of the Hunterian Society (1993): 73-87, q.v.
• Anon, 1992, review of The Leeuwenhoek Legacy in Notes & Records of the Royal Society, 1 January.
• Mundell, I., 1991, Leeuwenhoek lives! [interview with BJF on book], Laboratory News: 6-7, 7 October.
• BJF, 1991, The Leeuwenhoek Legacy, 185pp, Bristol: Biopress, ISBN 0-948737-10-7 and London: Farrand Press, ISBN 1850-830-169, July [distributed by Lubrecht & Cramer, USA].
• Announcement, 1991, BJF, Leeuwenhoek Legacy, Circular, London: Farrand Press, 2 May.
• Goldbarth, Arnold, 1990, [Acknowledges Brian J Ford writings on Leeuwenhoek in] Delft, essay poem, Kenyon review, XII: 76-96. [reprinted as: Delft - an Essay-poem, Maryville: GreenTower Press].
• McCrone, Walter, 1990, reports BJF at Inter-Micro, Chicago: An Evening with Brian - Give Microscopy back to the people, On TV 413 Leeuwenhoek & Hooke, 469.
• Anon, 1990, Certificate of Appreciation for Humfrey Lecture, Northampton Natural History Society, 24 November.
• BJF, 1990, 28th Humfrey Lecture - Living with Microscopes, Northampton Natural History Society, 1930h, 24 November.
• Martin, L. V., 1990, cites Brian J Ford [in] Lost Leeuwenhoek Microscopes, Microscopy, 36 (1): 433, June.
• Promotional leaflet, Leeuwenhoek Legacy 1990, (sent by Lord Butterfield), October.
• BJF, 1990, What could a Leeuwenhoek Microscope reveal? Proceedings of the Royal Microscopical Society, 25 (2): 132.
• BJF, 1990, Leeuwenhoek Microscope, Proceedings of the Royal Microscopical Society, 25 (1): 9-11.
• Holland, J., 1989, [Cites BJF in] Microscopes and Microscopy, Sydney: Macleay Museum.
• BJF, 1989, Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Microscopist and Visionary Scientist, Journal of Biological Education, 24 (4): 293-300.
• Williams, R. J. B., 1989, [cites Brian J Ford in] Microscopy in 1763, Microscopy Bulletin, 14: 14, Winter.
• Announcement, 1989, Brian J Ford to speak on The Single Lens Microscope, [in] Landmark Discoveries in the Natural World, April 1990, Society for History of Natural History, November.
• BJF, 1989, Microscope Review, Natural History, 1 (1): 59, November.
• Highfield, R., 1989, Earliest microscopes seen in clearer light [with picture], Daily Telegraph: 7, 3 November.
• BJF, 1989, A New History of the Microscope [lecture demonstration], Linnean Society, Burlington House, 2 November.
• Raven, P. H., and Johnson, B. B., 1989, Pictures of Leeuwenhoek microscope and Specimen [in] Understanding Biology: 84-85, 1st edition, New York: Mosby-Yearbook Inc.
• BJF, 1989, Leeuwenhoek's Techniques of Microscopy [lecture], Clemson University, South Carolina, 21 October.
• BJF, 1989, The Early History of the Optical Microscope [lecture], Appalachian Microscopical Society Meeting at Charleston, South Carolina, 20 October.
• Announcement, 1989, Brian J Ford to Lecture at Fall Meeting, Appalachian Microscopical Society, Autumn.
• BJF, 1989, [proofs] Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Microscopist and Scientist, Institute of Biology, September.
• BJF, 1989, Reappraising the Origins of Microscopy [with colour illustrations], Leading Paper, Microscopy and Analysis, 13: 7-10, September.
• Poster, 1989, Brian J Ford Guest Speaker at Clemson University, Autumn.
• BJF, 1989, [proofs] Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Microscopist and Scientist, Institute of Biology, September.
• BJF, 1989, The Discovery of Saccharomyces, Ferment, 2 (4): 221-223, August.
• Report, with group photograph, 1989, Brian J Ford speaks at Oxford Conference, Ferment, 2 (1): 16, March. See also microscope study by BJF, front cover illustration.
• Hall, A. R., 1989, [Cites Brian J Ford in] Antony van Leeuwenhoek, ibid., 43: 248-273, August.
• BJF, 1989, Comments on 'neoscience', ibid., 43: 206-207, August.
• Palm, L. C., 1989, [Cites Brian J Ford in] Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 43: 198, 207, August.
• McCrone W., 1988, [reports] BJF paper to Inter-Micro 88, i) Life History of the Lens, The Microscope, 36 (4): 232.
• BJF 1988, Awarded grant in History of Science, Royal Society News, 4 (9): 8, June.
• BJF, 1988 Lecture at Inter-Micro 88: An Evening with Brian J Ford - The Natural History of the Lens, Chicago: McCormick Center, 27 June.
• Russell, N., 1989, Report of BJF's lecture, Antony van Leeuwenhoek as an Experimental Biologist, Biology History, 2 (2): 12.
• Wessels, N. K. & Hopson, J. L., 1988, [cite Leeuwenhoek specimens in] Biology: 97, plate 5-1, New York, Random House, May.
• Nuttall, R. N., 1987, [cites BJF Leeuwenmhoek research in] Development of the Microscope 1800-1851, Microscopy 35: 591-604, December.
• Wall, C. E. (editor), 1987, Brian J Ford on Antony van Leeuwenhoek, in The Book of Days: 533-34, Pierian Press.
• BJF, 1986, The Leeuwenhoekiana of Clifford Dobell, Notes and Records of Royal Society, 41 (1): 95-105, November.
• BJF, 1986, [preprint summary] The Real History of the Microscope, Inter-Micro 86, McCormick Center, Chicago, July.
• BJF, 1986, Single Lens, the Story of the Simple Microscope, 182 pp, Japanese edition, Tokyo: Hosei University Press.
• McNulty, John, 1986, Macroscopic Renaissance Man [profile], Mensa Magazine: 5, 6 June
• Darnell, James; Loadish, Harvey; & Baltimore, David, 1986, describe Brian J Ford's Leeuwenhoek research (plus two illustrations) in Molecular Cell Biology: 3, 1187, New York: Scientific American Books, August.
• Announcement, 1986, BJF and 'The First Specimens for the Microscope' Conversazione Presentation, The Linnean: 3, 30 April (published March 86).
• Kleinsmith, Lewis & Kish, Valerie, 1986, Principle Of Cell Biology: 4 [includes van Leeuwenhoek specimen of Elder], New York: Harper-Collins.
• BJF, 1986, The Leeuwenhoekiana of Clifford Dobell [Ms paper prepared for] Notes and Records Of The Royal Society, March.
• Frank, Arthur, 1985, Lost or Forgotten Microscopes [cites the 'recent discovery by Brian J Ford'], Microscopy, 35: 270-271.
• McCrone, Walter, 1985, [editor] review of Single Lens, Story ofn the Simple Microscope, The Microscope: 33, (4): 303-305.

• BJF, 1985, [paper] Origins of Microscopy, Cambridge Medical Society, Newmarket, 15 November.
• Award, 1985, Technical Category Photomicrographs, Annual International Photographic Competition, London: Institute of Science Technology, Autumn.
• Baily, Ronald, 1985, The Beginnings of the Microscope (review of Single Lens, with illustrations), Washington Times Magazine, USA, 29 April.
• BJF, 1985, Single Lens, the Story of the Simple Microscope, 182 pp, ISBN 0-06-015-366-0, New York: Harper & Row,$14.95, April.
• Schuuring, Casper, 1985, Microscopisch speurwerk, (review of Single Lens), Intermediair, 21, (14): 45, 55, with photograph, 5 April.
• Schuuring, Casper, 1985, Speuren met oude spullen van Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Logboek van de Wetenschap, Eindhovens Dagblad: 11, with illustrations, 12 April.
• Schuuring, Caspar, 1985, Speurtocht naar erfenis Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Brabants Dagblad: 25, [with pictures], 13 April.
• BJF, 1985, Single Lens, the Story of the Simple Microscope, 182 pp, ISBN 0-434-26844-5, London: William Heinemann, 9.95, March.
• BJF, 1984, Discovery and the Simple Microscope, Special Public Lecture, Natural History Museum, 1500h, 10 November.
• Mann, R. D., 1984, [cites BJF in] Modern Drug Use, an Enquiry based on Historical Principles: viii, 250-251, 0-85200-717-5, Lancaster and Boston: MTP Press, November.
• de Duve, Christian, 1984, Cites Brian J Ford Leeuwenhoek research [in] Preparing for the Tour, A Guided Tour of the Living Cell, xi, 7, New York: Rockefeller University Press, September.
• BJF, 1984, Una Ojeada Electronica a los Animalculos de Leeuwenhoek, Rassengna [Central American Medical Journal], 2: 12-15.
• List, 1984, Micrograph Prizewinners, Proceedings of the Royal Microscopical Society, 19, (4): 186, par 4.
• Daerr, Nancy, 1984, Leeuwenhoek banquet speech menu card for Inter/Micro 84, Chicago: McCrone Resedarch Institute, 19 July.
• Report, 1984, BJF's 'fascinating submission' to RMS Photomicrograph Exhibition, Proceedings of the Royal Microscopical Society, 19, (4): 184.
• List, 1984, Micrograph Prizewinners, Proceedings of the Royal Microscopical Society, 19, (4): 186, par 4.
• Report, 1984, The Origins of Biological Microscopy, Catalogue of Exhibits, Royal Society Soirée, 21 June (see also sample posters from presentation).
• Daerr, Nancy, 1984, Leeuwenhoek Visited with BJF, Inter-Micro 84 Programme, Chicago, Illinois, June.
• Script, 1984, BJF guest appearance on Elinor chat show, HTV [discussing Leeuwenhoek, VTR 19 June, TX 22 June].
• Daerr, Nancy, 1984, Leeuwenhoek Visited with BJF, Inter Micro 84 Programme, Chicago: McCrone Research Institute.
• Report, 1984, The Origins of Biological Microscopy, Catalogue of Exhibits, Royal Society Soire, 21 June (see also sample posters from presentation).
• Announcement, 1984, New Light on the Origins of Biological Microscopy, Conversazione Programme, London: Royal Society, 10 May.
• BJF, 1984, [Presentation] New Light on the Origins of Biological Microscopy, Royal Society Conversazione, 10 May.
• BJF, 1984, [Presentation] New Light on the Origins of Biological Microscopy, Royal Society Conversazione, 10 May (see also sample posters from presentation).
• BJF, 1984, Leeuwenhoek Bibliography, Correspondence Column, Proceedings of the Royal Microscopical Society, 19, (1): 3, January.
• BJF, 1984, Bacteria and Cells of Human Origin on van Leeuwenhoek's Sections of 1674 [adapted from: Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, q.v.,] Lead Article, Bioscience, 34 (2): 106.
• Nester, E. W., Roberts, C. E., Lidstrom, M. E., Pearsall, N. N., & Nester, M. T., 1983, [include BJF illustrations of Leeuwenhoek specimens in] Microbiology, third edition: Figs 1-2, a & b, 1-6, and cite BJF Microbiology and Food, p776, Philadelphia and New York: Saunders College Publishing, September.
• Ford, Brian J., 1983, What were the Missing Microscopes really Like? Proceedings of the Royal Microscopical Society, 18, (2): 118-124, March.
• Palm, L. C., and Snelders, H., 1982, [cite Brian J Ford's Leeuwenhoek research in] Antoni van Leeuwenhoek: 80, 187 et seq., Amsterdam: Rodolpi.
• BJF, 1982, The Nucleus and the Simple Microscope, Journal of Biological Education, 16 (4): 281-285, December.
• BJF, 1982, Leeuwenhoek's Original Specimens Examined after 307 Years [revised version of paper in Nature], Scientific Review, Olympus, 3 (1): 10-12.
• BJF, 1982, Correlated Optical and Electron Microscopy of Leeuwenhoek's Elder-pith Sections, Journal of Microscopy, 128 (2): 211-213.
• BJF, 1982, Antony van Leeuwenhoek's Sections of Bovine Optical Nerve, The Microscope, 30: 171-181.
• BJF, 1982, Revelation and the Single Lens, British Medical Journal, 285: 1822-1824 (reprinted as pp 1-7), December.
• BJF, 1982, The Rotifera of Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Microscopy, 34 (5): 362-373.
• BJF, 1982, The Origins of Plant Anatomy - Leeuwenhoek's Cork Sections Examined [invited contribution], International Association of Wood Anatomists' Bulletin, ns 3 (1): 7-10.
• Knight, Sam, 1982, A Mystery is Solved [lecture report], Western Mail, 27 September.
• BJF, 1982, World's Oldest Microscope Specimens [lecture for the public], Natural History Museum, 1500h, 25 September.
• Announcement, 1982, BJF to present Leeuwenhoek commemorative lecture, Biologist, 29 (4)
• Announcement, 1982, The World's Oldest Microscope Specimens, Today's Events, The Times, 25 September.
• Poster, 1982, World's Oldest Microscope Specimens, Natural History Museum, July.
• Announcement, 1982, Microbe Power and Patterns of Sex [cited in] Pure and Applied Science Books 1876-1982, New York & London: Bowker Company.
• Report, 1982, A Vision Rediscovered, Science Now, 2 (20): 556-559.
• BJF, 1982, The Specimens of Antony van Leeuwenhoek - Rediscovering Early Microscopy, [first formal lecture on the Leeuwenhoek specimens], Facultad de Ciencias, Universitad Autonoma de Barcelona, 20 May.
• BJF, 1982, Cytological examination of Leeuwenhoek's first Microbial Specimens [invited contribution and lead paper], Tissue and Cell, 14 (2): 207-217.
• Award, 1982, View of Leeuwenhoek's Specimens through the Microscope at Utrecht [prizewinner in] Annual International Photographic Exhibition, Institute of Science Technology, April.
• BJF, 1982, The Lost Treasure of Anton van Leeuwenhoek [with illustrations], Science Digest, 90 (3): 88-92, 110, March.
• Biography, 1982, BJF [with picture], Science Digest, 90 (3): 8, March.
• Degeunt, Philippe, 1982, Television interview with Brian J Ford on the Leeuwenhoek specimens, Élémentaire, mon cher Einstein, French Television Service, 15 March.
• BJF, 1982, Hermits, Crackpots and Pseudoscience, [reviews Gardner, Martin, Science: Good, Bad and Bogus, New York: Prometheus Books, 1981], Science Digest, 90 (2): 106-107 February.
• BJF, 1982, Bacteria and Cells of human Origin on van Leeuwenhoek’s Sections of 1674 [leading paper], Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, 101 (1): 1-9.
• Cutler, D. F. & Kermack, D. N., 1982, Proceedings of Special General Meeting [addressed by Brian J Ford], Linnean Society, 21 January.
• Rogers, James, 1982, What Leeuwenhoek Saw, Scientific American, 246 (1): 79-80, January.
• BJF, 1981, The Mystery of the Missing Microscopes, Illustrated London News, 269: 76-77, December.
• BJF, 1981, Lo que Observaban los Primeros Microscopistas [translation from La Recherche], Mundo Cientifico, 1 (9): 1037-1039.
• BJF, 1981, The Annotation of Leeuwenhoek's packets of Specimens - a Preliminary Account, Proceedings of the Royal Microscopical Society, 16 (6): 393-395.
• BJF, 1981, Ce qu'observaient les Premiers Microscopistes, La Recherche, 12: 1147-1149.
• Cairns, John, 1981, Report on Leeuwenhoek specimens, Aquatic Biology Newsletter, Louisiana, November.
• Knox, Peter, 1981, Ancient Lens, Observer Colour Magazine: 27, 22 November.
• Temple, Robert, 1981, Tiny Tomb, Science People, Discover, 2 (10): 88, October.
• BJF, 1981, A Clear Case of Second Sight, The Guardian: 22, 22 October.
• BJF, 1981, Specimens from the Dawn of Microscopy, Biologist, 28 (4): 180-181.
• Announcement, 1981, Picture of Leeuwenhoek specimens, Biologist, 28 (4): cover picture.
• Report, 1981, BJF discovers Leeuwenhoek specimens, Science Digest, 89 (9): September.
• Award, 1981, Correlated electron and optical micrographs of sections cut by Antony van Leeuwenhoek [highly commended], Royal Microscopical Society Competition, 15 September.
• Wood, R., 1981, Discovery Unmasked, letter, [and] BJF, 1981, But ... [response], Nature, 293: 6, 3 September.
• BJF, 1981, Leeuwenhoek Specimens, [Presentation and exhibit for Quekett Microscopical Club], Natural History Museum, 25 August.
  [reported in: Quekett Microscopical Club Newsletter, 21: 1a, March 1982].
• Report, 1981, [on Leeuwenhoek specimens], Die Zeit, mid-August.
• Walgate, Robert, 1981, Origineles coupes van Leeuwenhoek verrasend dun, NRC Handelsblad, 12 August.
• Script, 1981, The News Quiz, BBC, 1830h, 31 July:
  'Simon: Gillian Reynolds - where would you go underground for a seventeenth century slideshow?
  Answer: To the vaults of the Royal Society where biologist Brian Ford revealed that slides prepared by Antony Leeuwenhoek - a Dutch 17th century pioneer of the microscope - shows that his techniques were almost as advanced as today's. The collection of slides includes examples of cell structure, views of Bournemouth and fragments of a British Rail Edam sandwich.'
• Report, 1981, Biology Slides 300 years old, Evening Echo & Post, 30 July.
• Report, 1981, Specimen finds shows Science is much Older, Shropshire Star, 30 July.
• Report, 1981, Science given a Micro Shock, Evening Mail, 30 July.
• Report, 1981, New Find shatters Scientists' Beliefs, South Wales Echo, 30 July.
• Report, 1981, Specimen Finds alter our History, Evening Leader, 30 July.
• Report, 1981, Discovery of Microscopic Specimens 300 years old, Oxford Mail, 30 July.
• Report, 1981, Microbiology, Historic Find, Doncaster Evening News, 30 July.
• Report, 1981, First in Field by 200 Years, Glasgow Herald, 30 July.
• Report, 1981, Science Shock, Evening Mail, Birmingham, 30 July.
• Report, 1981, Biologist makes Historic Find, Evening Express, 30 July.
• Report, 1981, Microbiology - Historic Find, Evening News, Doncaster, 30 July.
• Report, 1981, Historic Find in Vaults, The Scotsman, 30 July.
• Berry, Adrian, 1981, Finds sheds Light on Microscopy, Daily Telegraph: 5, 30 July.
• BJF, 1981, Found - van Leeuwenhoek's Original Specimens, New Scientist, 91: 301, 30 July.
• BJF, 1981, Leeuwenhoek's Specimens discovered after 307 years, Nature, 292: 407, 30 July.
• Day, Sir Robin, 1981, Interview with BJF on specimens, BBC News, 1315h, 29 July.
• Veitch, Andrew, 1981, Find shows Evidence of Cell Studies in 1600s, The Guardian: 3, 28 July.
• BJF, 1981, The van Leeuwenhoek Specimens, Notes & Records of the Royal Society, 36 (1): 37-59.
• Report, 1980, Small Wonder [on Kodak Bursary], Cardiff Journal: 9, 19 June.
• Report, 1980, Back in Time to the Eye of a very old Fly [news report on Kodak Bursary], South Wales Echo, 15 June.
• BJF, 1976, Towards a new Microscopy, The Microscope, 24(4): 295-302.
• BJF, 1973, The Revealing Lens: Mankind and the Microscope, 208pp, ISBN 0-245-51016-8, London: Harrap, September.
• Advertisement, 1973, The Revealing Lens, Mankind and the Microscope, The Bookseller, and elsewhere.
• BJF, 1973, The Optical Microscope Manual: Past and Present Uses and Techniques, 205pp, ISBN 0-7153-5862-6, Newton Abbott: David and Charles.
• Report, 1973, Fact Finding with Old Microscopes, South Wales Echo, 3 March.
• Report, 1972, Brian Probes behind the Lens", South Wales Echo: 5, 17 March.
• BJF, 1972, Light Forms Images, A.S.E.P.: 89-90, Victoria, Australia, January.
• BJF, 1972, Microscopic Worlds: Photography with a Microscope, Practical Photographer: 5 15 January.
• BJF, 1971, Light Forms Images [page proofs: experiments for schools], A.S.E.P., Victoria, Australia, December.
• BJF, 1971, Recreating the Pioneer Microscopist's View, New Scientist, 51 (763): 324-325, 5 August.
• BJF, 1971, A Reconstruction of the Microscopic view of Nature Two-and-a-half Centuries Ago, British Journal of Photography,118 (5793): 682-685, 30 July.
• BJF, 1970, Searching for Ultimate Resolution, British Journal of Photography 117 (5716): 144-145, 6 February.
• BJF, 1966, Brian J Ford Writes on: Medical Microscopy Yesterday and Today, Medical News: 7, 15 July (see also: unrestored page).

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