Download or read book The Microscope in the Dutch Republic written by Edward G. Ruestow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the two seventeenth-century pioneers of microscopic dicovery, the Dutchmen Jan Swammerdam and Antoni van Leewenhoek, Ruestow demonstrates that their uneasiness with their social circumstances spurred their discoveries. Though arguing that aspects of Dutch culture impeded serious research with the microscope, Ruestow also shows, however, that the culture of the period shaped how Swammerdam and Leewenhoek responded to what they saw through the lens. He concludes by emphasising how their early microscopic efforts differed from the institutionalised microscopic research that began in the nineteenth century.
Download or read book Measuring the Invisible World written by Abraham Schierbeek and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers Leeuwenjoek's work in microbiology, histology, entomology, botany, and medicine.
Download or read book The Fabric of Life written by Marian Fournier and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the life sciences, precision and empirical sophistication began to arrive with the microscope. The instrument enjoyed a period of novelty and influence in seventeenth-century England, Holland, Italy, and France, only later to fall into disuse. Among historians of science, the reasons for the microscope's appearance and then eclipse have long been a subject of debate. Based on extensive research in Dutch sources, The Fabric of Life examines the work of five leading microscopists of the period -- Robert Hooke, Marcello Malpighi, Jan Swammerdam, Nehemiah Grew, and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek -- and locates answers in the mentalities they took to their work. Marian Fournier finds that these early scientists initially used microscopical observations as arguments in favor of mechanical philosophy. With the aid of the microscope, their work led to unexpected discoveries, making the microscope all the rage in some circles but also raising new issues that eventually discouraged use of the new device.
Download or read book Popular Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1901-04 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.
Download or read book Antony Van Leeuwenhoek and His Little Animals written by Clifford Dobell and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collected Letters Van Leeuwenhoek Volume 6 written by Lodewijk C. Palm and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 6th volume in a 19-volume series contains 21 letters written by van Leeuwenhoek of the perod 1686-87. The contents of the letters published here, again show the great range of subjects that occupied Van Leeuwenhoek: from sugar candy, the shape and crystal structure of diamonds, the dissolution of silver crystals in aqua fortis to gold dust from Guinea dissolved in aqua regia and the dissolution and separation of gold, silver, and copper. Every volume in the Series contains the texts in the original Dutch and an English translation. The great range of subjects studied by Van Leeuwenhoek is reflected in these letters: instruments to measure water, pulmonary diseases; experiments relating to the solution of gold and silver; salt crystals and grains of sand; botanical work, such as duckweed and germination of orange pips; description on protozoa. blood, spermatozoa and health and hygiene, for example and harmfulness of tea and coffee and the benefits of cleaning teeth.
Download or read book The Book of Nature written by and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A father tells his child about the wonder of the natural world from a Christian point of view.
Download or read book Biology and Its Makers written by William Albert Locy and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roots of Ecology written by Frank N. Egerton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ecological questions are at the center of many of the most important decisions faced by humanity. Roots of Ecology documents the deep ancestry of this enormously important science from the early ideas of Herodotus, Plato, and Pliny; up through those of Linnaeus and Dawin, to those that inspired Ernst Haeckel's mid-nineteenth-century neologism ecology. Based on a long-running series of regularly published columns, this important work gathers a vast literature that illustrates the development of the ecological concepts, environmental ideas, and creative reasoning that have led to our modern view of ecology. Roots of Ecology should be on every ecologist's shelf."--Back cover.
Download or read book First Annual Report on the Noxious Insects for the Province of Ontario written by Entomological Society of Ontario and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Life Sciences Revised and Expanded written by Lois N. Magner and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-08-13 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear and concise survey of the major themes and theories embedded in the history of life science, this book covers the development and significance of scientific methodologies, the relationship between science and society, and the diverse ideologies and current paradigms affecting the evolution and progression of biological studies. The author discusses cell theory, embryology, physiology, microbiology, evolution, genetics, and molecular biology; the Human Genome Project; and genomics and proteomics. Covering the philosophies of ancient civilizations to modern advances in genomics and molecular biology, the book is a unique and comprehensive resource.
Download or read book Antoni van Leeuwenhoek written by Lesley Robertson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Master of the Minuscule, the Father of Microbiology is presented in the context of his time, relationships and the Dutch Golden Age. Although he lacked an academic education, he dedicated his life to investigating the microscopic world using handmade, single-lensed microscopes and magnifiers. An expert observer, he planned experiments and designed equipment to test his theories. His pioneering discoveries included blood cells, protozoa, bacteria and spermatozoa, and resulted in an international reputation among the scientific and upper classes of 17th and 18th century Europe, aided by his Fellowship of the Royal Society of London. This lavishly illustrated biography sets his legacy of scientific achievements against the ideas and reactions of his fellow scientists and other contemporaries.
Download or read book The Early Naturalists Their Lives and Work 1530 1789 written by Louis Compton Miall and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See pages 310-358 for an account of Carl Linnaeus and the de Jussieus; and pages 370-375 for Linnaues and Buffon.
Download or read book Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Arts written by Ontario. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Invisible World written by Catherine Wilson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1997-12-21 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 17th century the microscope opened up a new world of observation, and, according to author Catherine Wilson, profoundly revised the thinking of scientists and philosophers alike. Focusing on the earliest forays into microscopical research, from 1620 to 1720, this book provides us with both a compelling technological history and a lively assessment of the new knowledge.
Download or read book The Story of Biology written by William Albert Locy and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some general considerations regarding biological history; The natural history of antiquity; Greek science in Alexandria; Natural history during the Roman period; From Galen to the thirteenth century; Some natural history writings of the thirteenth century; The earliest printed illustrations of natural history.
Download or read book A Classified Bibliography of the History of Dutch Medicine 1900 1974 written by G.A. Lindeboom and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I. In some periods of the past Netherlands medicine has played a major role in the evolution of European medicine; today its history still enjoys much in terest even at the other side of the Ocean. In this bibliography it has been my endeavour to compile references for all that has been written on the history of Dutch medicine in our country and elsewhere in our age. The main concern of this work is with the medicine of the Northern Nether lands. However, before the end of the sixteenth century the Northern and South ern Netherlands were not yet divided into two separate countries; they were still politically one and for the greater part spoke the same Flemish language. So be fore their separation the present-day Belgium and Netherlands also had a com mon medical history. Therefore many entries have been included which bear on early (and sometimes later) Flemish medicine, but it has not been the inten tion to strive for completeness in this respect.
