Swammerdam

• “I have narrowed the responsible person down to 3 names: the Swiss Johann Jacob Harder, the Dutch Jan Swammerdam and the English John Ray.”

  Who discovered that pulmonate snails and slugs are hermaphrodites?

• “Fifty years later, the bee was a favorite subject for the pioneering entomologist Jan Swammerdam. back”

  Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro

• “Swammerdam, against the united forces of the Duke of Alva and”

  The Kickleburys on the Rhine

• “Swammerdam, a brilliant Dutch naturalist of the 17th century, was especially noted for his minute studies of the viscera and system of injection of vessels.”

  Representative Men

• “Swammerdam, and signed, on behalf of H.B.M., the Peace of”

  The History of Pendennis

• “While in Leiden he made a number of acquaintances, including Swammerdam, de Graat, and Spinoza, but he didn't stay long; in early 1664, he returned to Copenhagen.”

  Meet Nicholas Steno

• “Before an audience of intellectuals, Swammerdam cut away the skin of the silkworm to reveal what appeared to be a tiny model of the future moth inside, from proboscis to antennae to folded wings.”

  Middlesex

• “The insect Swammerdam used in his experiments back in 1669 was nothing other than a silkworm.”

  Middlesex

• “The Preformationists, with their roller-coaster names — Spallazani, Swammerdam, Leeuwenhoek — believed that all of humankind had existed in miniature since Creation, in either the semen of Adam or the ovary of Eve, each person tucked inside the next like a Russian nesting doll.”

  Middlesex

• “Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen in 1964; the conferment, in 1973, of the honorary degree of D.Sc. by Edinburgh University; and the awarding of the Jan Swammerdam medal of the”

  Nikolaas Tinbergen - Autobiography

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