The collected letters of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek v. 16

In volume XVI of The Collected Letters of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, 25 letters have been included, all of them written from July 1707 to June 1712. Every volume in the series contains the texts in the original Dutch and an English translation. The great range of subjects studied by Van Leeuwenhoek is reflected in these letters: instruments to measure water; pulmonary diseases; experimentsrelating to the solution of gold and silver; salt crystals and grains of sand; botanical work, such as duckweed and germination of orange pips; descriptions on protozoa; blood; spermatozoa; and health and hygiene, for example and harmfulness of tea and coffee and the benefits of cleaning teeth.

• ISBN: 978-0-415-58640-5
• Editorial: CRC Press
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Fecha Publicación: 28/01/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés