Leeuwenhoek Antoni 1632 1723 (5 results)

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5 works in one volume. Sm. 4to. [ii], [iv], 3-78; 258; [viii], 124; [viii], 568, [xiv]; [ii], 192, [viii] pp. Page numbers 231-232 repeated in pagination [first section]. Numerous engraved plates (many folding); occasional light foxing. Original vellum backed with quarter calf with elaborate gilt-stamped spine; some wear to joints. [Spine title: "LEEUWENHOCK â" OPUSCULA VARIA"]. Bookplates of Pierre Lambert and Pierre Amalric; three rubber-stamps on title (scribbled), final leaf with two additional stamps (not scribbled) Bibliotheca Mellicensis. First or early collected printings of Leeuwenhoek's letters â" THE FIRST SYSTEMATIC USE OF THE MICROSCOPE. "To Antonio van Leeuwenhoek, of Delft, belongs the high merit of having been the first to use the microscope systematically and having brought the construction of the simple microscope in his own hands to a high degree of perfection. . . Self-taught and never having attended a university, ignorant of Latin and Greek and of the classical texts, he became one of the greatest and most expert microscopists, thanks to the sagacity of his observations and the perfection of his technique" â" Arturo Castiglioni, A History of Medicine . . . pp. 528-529). / "Leeuwenhoek was a mast lens-grinder and, during his lifetime, constructed several hundred microscopes, grinding a new lends for each new investigation which he undertook. / These volumes contain some eighty letters from among several hundred in which Leeuwenhoek communicated the results of his microscopical investigations to the Royal Society in London and which were published in its Philosophical Transactions over many years. Though not a trained scientist and unable to follow up his hundreds of investigations, he opened up avenues of anatomy hitherto unknown and unseen, leading to accurate physiology and, in turn, to accurate therapeutics. One example is use of his perfected microscope by Malpighi . . . to define the ultimate structure of the capillaries, which closed the final link in Harvey's description of the circulation of the blood. Leeuwenhoek first described the individual plant cell, the individual striped muscle cell, spermatozoa, red corpuscles, and the crystalline lens of the eye. These works are richly illustrated with Leeuwenhoek's drawings, which are of fundamental importance to histologic anatomy." â" Heirs of Hippocrates 585, 586, 587, 589, 590. / "Van Leeuwenhoek was the first to see protozoa under the microscope. He found microorganisms in the mouth and on the teeth and, for the first time, furnished exact descriptions of the shapes of bacterial clumps and chains as well as of individual bacilli. No one else was to see bacteria again for over a century. He also wrote about the cell nucleus and the structure of spermatozoa, gave the first accurate account of red blood corpuscles, delineated the conformation of the crystalline lens, and discovered the sarcolemma and the striped nature of skeletal muscle. His thorough examination of the capillary circulation which Malpighi had recently touched on briefly with appreciating its significance, completed proof of the blood circulation proposed by Harvey sixty years earlier." â" LeFanu-Lilly Library. / "Anatomia Seu interiora Rerum" comes in two states: this is the issue with "Inanimatarum" on the title instead of "Inanimarum". Other points include: "nebeficio" instead of "beneficio". Cf. Dobell 22. / Contains Leeuwenhoek letters: Anatomia seu . . . (1687): 28-31, 34-6, 38, 42-52; Continuatio epistolarum . . . (1689): 53-60; Arcana . . . (1695): 32, 33, 37, 39-41, 61-92; Continuatio Arcanorum . . . (1697): 93-107. / PROVENANCE: Pierre Amalric (1923-1999), born in Velour sur Agouti, France, studied medicine in Toulouse, after the WWII be mentored Professor Calmettes, a well-known ophthalmologist, becoming himself an ophthalmologist and through his career contributed some 670 articles. "His main medical contributions were on choroidal circulation, the treatment of diabeti.

Seconde Edition revue & corrigee. [46], 481, [23] pp. Text in French. Index at rear. Last page blank. Frontis. Printer's device to t.p. Head- Tailpieces. Decorative initial capital letters. Folding copperplate engraving after p. 480. 12mo: * - **12 A - X12. *1 as frontis. D7 mis-signed as D6. 14.5 cm x 8 cm. Contains letter extract [p. 469 - 481] from Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society, with the plate showing examples of his work. Inked out names to t.p. Minor worming in gutter, primarily in the 'A' gathering. Loose 'Q' gathering. 2 short tears to plate attachment point. Withal, a VG copy. Period full vellum binding, with title hand-inked to spine. Red speckled edges.

Ca. 184 x 58 mm, mounted on backing paper with note by a later collector (ca. 222 x 138 mm). The beginning of an unpublished letter to an unidentified recipient. It often happens to him, writes van Leeuwenhoek, that he finds himself working on matters the full import of which he does not grasp, and so he would be glad to learn the opinions of Mr. Tevenot (i.e., the French scholar Melchisédech Thévenot, 1620-92): "Myn Heer. Gelijk ik veeltijts verschijde saaken bij de Hant neem omme die haer wesen te ontdecken, daer ik niet kan door komen, soo sal het mij niet onaengenaem sijn, dat de Heer Tevenot mij eenige voorstellen dede waar sijn speculatien mogten komen te vallen, omme alsdan daer op te antwoorden". - In 1683 van Leeuwenhoek wrote to Heinsius: "I have heard Mr. H. van Bleyswyk's high praise of Mons. Thevenot, and I am anxious to hear what that learned and curious gentleman will say about my statements" (Leeuwenhoek, Alle de brieven IV, no. 78). In 1688 he wrote to Thévenot directly: "A few years ago I took the liberty to send you a few of my modest ideas and observations, to which Your Honour replied in courteous terms. Now it so happens that, among several observations, I have discovered the circulation of the blood [.]" (ibid., vol. VIII, no. 111). The present fragment would seem to belong to the context of the former letter. - Identified by a slightly later hand on the leaf itself ("Dit is van Leeuwenhoek"); the backing paper has a note by a German 19th century collector. - The Delft entrepreneur van Leeuwenhoek is one of the most notable representatives of the golden age of Dutch science and technology. A draper by trade and a largely self-taught amateur scientist, he pioneered the field of microscopy and is hailed as the "Father of Microbiology". His instruments, built by a secret and carefully guarded method, achieved magnification of up to 275 times and more - a resolution not reproduced until more than two centuries after his death. "[O]ne can say with truth that [.] protozoology, bacteriology and microbiology begin with Leeuwenhoek" (PMM 166). Autographs by Leeuwenhoek are of the utmost rarity; not a single specimen has been traced in trade records.

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