‘Your most humble servant’: the letters of Antony van Leeuwenhoek

‘Your most humble servant’: the letters of Antony van Leeuwenhoek

Abstract Antony van Leeuwenhoek's entire output is contained in the hundreds of letters that he wrote from 1673 to 1723. This article discusses the content, features, and circumstances of the letters and their contemporary publishing history, especially in the Royal Society's Philosophical...

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Published in:FEMS microbiology letters 2022-03, Vol.369 (1)
Main Author: Anderson, Douglas
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
Annotations
Historians
Humans
Interpreters
Linguistics
Male
Microbiology
Publishing
Science history
Scientists
Translations
Writing
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Summary:Abstract Antony van Leeuwenhoek's entire output is contained in the hundreds of letters that he wrote from 1673 to 1723. This article discusses the content, features, and circumstances of the letters and their contemporary publishing history, especially in the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions, as well as a brief history of the project begun in 1932 to publish a complete edition of Leeuwenhoek's letters in Dutch and English translation with linguistic, scientific, and historical annotations. This article discusses the content, features, circumstances, and publishing history of the complete corpus of Leeuwenhoek's almost 400 letters, his entire scientific output.
ISSN:1574-6968
0378-1097
1574-6968