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Leeuwenhoek, the Man: A Son of his Nation and his Time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Maria Rooseboom
Maria Rooseboom
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Director of the Museum of the History of Science at Leiden
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Extract

Much, has been written on Leeuwenhoek. It is with diffidence that I undertook to speak to-night on this subject in the country of Dobell and Cole, who have contributed so much to the knowledge and understanding of this great microscopist. Yet, though Leeuwenhoek's letters, written quite frankly like Pepys' diary, contain a self portrait more captivating than most autobiographies written for the purpose, the image deduced from them by most authors leaves me somewhat dissatisfied.

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Research Article
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Bulletin of the British Society for the History of Science , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , October 1950 , pp. 79 - 85
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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1950

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