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The Leeuwenhoek Legacy (Hardcover)

by Brian J. Ford (Author)

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Hardcover: 200 pages
Publisher: Farrand Press (Mar 1991)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1850830169
ISBN-13: 978-1850830160
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Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,205,991 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Antony van Leeuwenbock is considered to be the world's first microbiologist. Born in 1632, he produced simple microscopes to study specimens, both of which he later presented to the Royal Society in London. This book, three centuries later reflects research into Leeuwenhoek's letters and observations in early microscopy and it compares these findings with modern analysis of similar material. The book utilizes quotations and photographs of original documents of Leeuwenhoek's material alongside fresh specimens, micrographs and scanning electron micrographs. Brian Ford shows how accurate the early observations were, and how remarkably powerful were Leeuwenhoek's simple microscopes. By describing in some detail the surviving Leeuwenhoek microscopes, and providing the reader with details on how to construct such a microscope, he makes the subject accessible to the amateur microscopist and to the intelligent layman, and provides all scientists with a fascinating example of scientific detective work.

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