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

Ruestow, Edward G.

 
9780521528634: The Microscope in the Dutch Republic: The Shaping of Discovery
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ISBN 10 : 0521528631 ISBN 13 : 9780521528634
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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.

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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

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521528631
ISBN 13 
9780521528634
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Broché
Nombre de pages
360
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9780521470780: The Microscope in the Dutch Republic: The Shaping of Discovery

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521470781 ISBN 13 :  9780521470780
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1996
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