Bulletin of the British Society for the History of Science: Volume 1 -

A Conspectus of Science, 1851–1951: Festival of Britain Lecture
F. Sherwood Taylor
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05 January 2009, pp. 136-143
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So great has been the achievement of science during the past century, that, were I to do no more than to recite the titles of its major discoveries, my allotted hour would scarce suffice. Indeed my hearers are well enough acquainted with the outline and general course of scientific discovery during the last hundred years: to epitomise it would be superfluous as well as arduous.

Leeuwenhoek, the Man: A Son of his Nation and his Time
Maria Rooseboom
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05 January 2009, pp. 79-85
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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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