The Microscope in the Dutch Republic: The Shaping of Discovery - Couverture rigide

Ruestow, Edward G.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521470781 ISBN 13 : 9780521470780

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Ruestow examines the social unease that spurred the discoveries of the pioneers of microscopic research.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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. Though arguing that aspects of Dutch culture impeded serious research with the microscope, Ruestow also shows, however, that the culture of the period shaped how Swammerdam and Leewenhoek responded to what they saw through the lens. He concludes by emphasising how their early microscopic efforts differed from the institutionalised microscopic research that began in the nineteenth century.

Revue de presse

'Ruestow offers us an extremely thorough study of a fascinating period in the history of science ... Ruestow is to be congratulated for producing a work that will be read with profit for many years to come.' G. L. E. Turner, Nature

' ... clearly and lucidly written ...' Endeavour

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521470781
• ISBN 13: 9780521470780
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 364
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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