The Microscope in the Dutch Republic The Shaping of Discovery |
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Author:
| Ruestow, Edward G. |
ISBN: | 978-0-521-47078-0 |
Publication Date: | Jul 1996 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $164.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.