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Boerhaave Museum
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Byname of:
Royal Museum Of The History Of Natural And Exact Sciences
Dutch:
Rijksmuseum Voor De Geschiedenis Van Der Natuurwetenschappen En Van De Geneeskunde
Areas Of Involvement:
microscope
thermometer
science
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Boerhaave Museum

museum, Leiden, Netherlands
Also known as: Rijksmuseum voor de Geschiedenis van der Natuurwetenschappen en van de Geneeskunde, Royal Museum of the History of Natural and Exact Sciences(Show More)
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Boerhaave Museum, in Leiden, Neth., museum of the history of natural sciences and one of the foremost European museums of its type. It has a fine collection of old scientific instruments. There is a collection of microscopes belonging formerly to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) and thermometers from the collection of D.G. Fahrenheit (1686–1736).