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    Jan or Johannes Swammerdam (February 12, 1637 – February 17, 1680) was a Dutch biologist and microscopist. His work on insects demonstrated that the various...
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    Van Leeuwenhoek's religion was "Dutch Reformed" and Calvinist. Like Jan Swammerdam he often referred with reverence to the wonders God designed in making...
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    of the imaginal disc in insect development was first elucidated by Jan Swammerdam. During the pupal stage, many larval structures are broken down, and...
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    Thereafter, Giuseppe degli Aromatari and then Marcello Malpighi and Jan Swammerdam made observations using microscopes in the late 17th century, and interpreted...
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    Leuven (1658), Utrecht and Leiden (1663). There his co-students were Jan Swammerdam, Niels Stensen, Ole Borch and Frederik Ruysch, cooperating with professor...
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    earliest people to observe red blood cells under a microscope, after Jan Swammerdam. His treatise De polypo cordis (1666) was important for understanding...
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    Within a few months Steensen moved to Leiden, where he met the students Jan Swammerdam, Frederik Ruysch, Reinier de Graaf, Franciscus de le Boe Sylvius, a...
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    overview of a patient's general health status. In 1658 Dutch naturalist Jan Swammerdam was the first person to observe red blood cells under a microscope,...
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  • Varro Avicenna Girolamo Fracastoro Marcello Malpighi Athanasius Kircher Jan Swammerdam Robert Hooke Ilan Chet (born 1939), Israeli microbiologist, professor...
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  • efforts in the biological sciences, including invertebrate zoology. Jan Swammerdam, a Dutch microscopist, supported an effort to work for a 'modern' science...
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  • pupal stage, which Harvey viewed as the perfect egg form. However, Jan Swammerdam conducted a dissection study and showed that pupal forms are not egg-like...
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    at all, but that they were commissioned by Jan Swammerdam (1637–1680) and that after his death Swammerdam's widow had sold them to Bidloo. Whatever the...
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    illustrations supported the findings of Francesco Redi, Marcello Malpighi and Jan Swammerdam. Butterflies were regarded as symbol for the human soul since ancient...
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    Nicolaus Bruhns, German organist and composer (d. 1718) February 12 – Jan Swammerdam, Dutch biologist and microscopist (d. 1680) February 13 – Denis Granville...
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    November 2018. Walton, Richard E.; Sayer, Carl D.; Bennion, Helen; Axmacher, Jan C. (13 May 2020). "Nocturnal pollinators strongly contribute to pollen transport...
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    first person to describe red blood cells was the young Dutch biologist Jan Swammerdam, who had used an early microscope in 1658 to study the blood of a frog...
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  • the brain mechanisms responsible for circulating cerebrospinal fluid. Jan Swammerdam placed severed frog thigh muscle in an airtight syringe with a small...
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    specimen. Then, Van Leeuwenhoek re-discovered red blood cells (after Jan Swammerdam) and spermatozoa, and helped popularise the use of microscopes to view...
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    Insectis (Concerning Insect Animals) was published in 1602. Microscopist Jan Swammerdam published History of Insects, correctly describing the reproductive...
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    Spectacles" (in French). 2023-11-13. Retrieved 2023-12-29. John Fullerton; Jan Olsson (2004). Allegories of Communication: Intermedial Concerns from Cinema...
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    annual markets. In 1675 Jan Swammerdam visited the community. He had burned his study of the silkworm on her advice. Swammerdam traveled to Copenhagen...
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    Bartholomeo Eustachius (1520–1574), Reinier de Graaf (1641–1673), Jan Swammerdam (1637–1680), and Frederik Ruysch (1638–1731). The modern method of embalming...
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    and mice stirred up no debate. The Dutch biologist and microscopist Jan Swammerdam rejected the concept that one animal could arise from another or from...
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    January 1668. In 1669, about eighteen months after Goedaert’s death, Jan Swammerdam (1637–1680) published his book Historia Insectorum Generalis, in which...
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    Human interactions with insects Aspects of insects in culture Pioneers Jan Swammerdam Alfred Russel Wallace Jean-Henri Fabre Hans Zinsser (Rats, Lice and...
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    Christopher Wren observed that many shells form a logarithmic spiral; Jan Swammerdam observed the common mathematical characteristics of a wide range of...
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    in a 1674 letter to the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Jan Swammerdam had described red blood cells some years earlier, but did not publish...
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    infusoria and the diversity of microscopic life. Investigations by Jan Swammerdam led to new interest in entomology and helped to develop techniques of...
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  • "Experiments concerning the motion of sap in trees, made this spring". Jan Swammerdam publishes Historia Insectorum Generalis in the Netherlands, explaining...
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    and supported, the findings of Francesco Redi, Marcello Malpighi and Jan Swammerdam.: 40  While Merian's depiction of insects' life cycle was innovative...
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