Microscope in the Dutch Republic - The Shaping of Discovery

Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Ruestow Edward G., Edward G. Ruestow, Edward G. (University of Colorado Ruestow
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.01.2004
• EAN: 9780521528634
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52863-4
• No. of pages: 364
• Series: Shaping of Discovery
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics