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.

The Collected Letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek - Volume 17
The Collected Letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek - Volume 17

Author: Lodewijk C Palm

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-08-06

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 1315358654

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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.

The Collected Letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek - Volume 16
The Collected Letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek - Volume 16

Author: Lodewijk C. Palm

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2014-04-23

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 0203093399

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In volume XVI of The Collected Letters of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, 25 letters of Van Leeuwenhoek have been included, all of them written from July 1707 to June 1712. The letters were written to six distinct addressees. The larger part was addressed to the Royal Society in London in general (sixteen letters); and to three of its fellows in particular