The Collected Letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek -
The Collected Letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek -

Author: A Committee of Dutch Scientists

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1996-06-01

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9789026514500

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This volume (the 14th of a series of 19) contains 21 letters written between August 1701 and March 1704. At least half of these letters were addressed to Fellows of the Royal Society in London. 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; descriptions on protozoa; blood; spermatozoa; and health and hygiene, for example and harmfulness of tea and coffee and the benefits of cleaning teeth.;Volumes One to 13 are available at a reduced price from Swets and Zeitlinger.

The Collected Letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek - Volume 14
The Collected Letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek - Volume 14

Author: A Committee of Dutch Scientists

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2021-07-28

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 1000448355

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This volume (the 14th of a series of 19) contains 21 letters written between August 1701 and March 1704. At least half of these letters were addressed to Fellows of the Royal Society in London. 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; descriptions on protozoa; blood; spermatozoa; and health and hygiene, for example and harmfulness of tea and coffee and the benefits of cleaning teeth.;Volumes One to 13 are available at a reduced price from Swets and Zeitlinger.

Letter from G. Bidloo to Antony Van Leeuwenhoek
Letter from G. Bidloo to Antony Van Leeuwenhoek

Author: Govard Bidloo

Publisher: Brill

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13:

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Facsimile reprint of the 1698 first edition which was published in Delft and including an English translation by J. Jansen. Introduction, translation and facsimile. With portrait.

The Body Within
The Body Within

Author: Renée van de Vall

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9004176217

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The central question of this interdisciplinary volume is, whether present day medical visualisation techniques like ultrasound, endoscopy, CT, MRI and PET-scans mark a significant shift in the historical and cultural construction and experience of bodily interiority.