Discoverer of the Unseen World (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Alma Smith Payne
- First Published: 1966
- Time of Work: 1632–1723
- Setting: The Netherlands and England
- Principal Characters: Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Robert Hooke, Christiaan Huygens, Regnier de Graaf, Henry Oldenburg, Jan Swammerdam
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Science or scientists, Seventeenth century, Microbiology, Netherlands or Dutch people, Biography, Inventions or inventors, Discoveries, Biology or biologists
- Locales: England, Netherlands
Form and Content
Alma Smith Payne’s Discoverer of the Unseen World: A Biography of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is a scientific biography dealing mainly with Leeuwenhoek’s life between 1673 and 1723, when he made his major contributions to microscopy. Payne begins her account with a chapter placing Leeuwenhoek in the scientific context of the seventeenth century, and what little is known of his personal life is outlined in the second chapter. The central ten chapters of the book follow a rough chronological sequence but are focused on the various themes of Leeuwenhoek’s...
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