Anthony van Leeuwenhoek 'Epistolae Physiologicae' First coll...

Anthony van Leeuwenhoek 'Epistolae Physiologicae' First collected edition in Latin of the works of the earliest and most expert microscopists. Leeuwenhoek`s writings were originally published letter by letter in Leiden and Delft from 1684 to 1689; sets of the complete works first appeared in 1719 and were composed of those separate issues, bound together. Leeuwenhoek was the first to see and describe Bacteria, Red Blood Corpuscles and Spermatozoa. Contains 31 engravings, some folded.

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