Antoni van Leeuwenhoek on the circulation of the blood : Latin text of his 65th letter to the Royal Society, Sept. 7th, 1688 : facsimile / with an introduction by A. Schierbeek.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van, 1632-1723.

Contributor:

• Schierbeek, Abraham, 1887-1974.
• Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

• Dutch classics on history of science ; 2.
• Dutch classics on history of science ; 2

Language:

• English
• Latin

Subjects (All):

• Blood--Circulation--Early works to 1800.
• Blood--Circulation.
• Blood--Circulation--History.
• History.

Physical Description:

33 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 165-186 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

On the circulation of the blood

Place of Publication:

Nieuwkoop : B. de Graaf, 1962.

Contents:

• A short history of the discovery of the circulation of the blood
• The position of Leeuwenhoek in the history of the discovery of the circulation of the blood
• A few biographical data on Leeuwenhoek
• Facsimile of the 65th letter to the Royal Society (Sept. 7th 1688).

Notes:

• Facsimile from the Arcana naturae detecta of 1695, in the Library of the Leeuwenhoek Commission, Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam : p. [1]-[24], 2nd group.
• Limited to five hundred copies.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 30-33).

OCLC:

187829953