Microscope in the Dutch Republic - The Shaping of Discovery

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Of light, lenses and glass beads; 2. Seeming invitations; 3. Obstacles; 4. Discovery preempted; 5. Swammerdam; 6. Leeuwenhoek I: A clever burgher; 7. Leeuwenhoek II: Images and ideas; 8. Generation I: Turning against a tradition; 9. Generation II: The search for first beginnings; 10. A new world; Conclusion.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Edward G. Ruestow, Edward G. (University of Colorado Ruestow, Ruestow Edward G.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.07.1996
• EAN: 9780521470780
• ISBN: 978-0-521-47078-0
• No. of pages: 364
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / History, Microscopy, SCIENCE / Microscopes & Microscopy, History of Science