23. GESCHICHTE DER MIKROSKOPIE; 



Leben und Werk grosser Forscher 

 Band I, Biologie 

 1963 



Editors: T. Freund and A. Berg Umschau Verlag 



375 pp., 31 portraits Frankfurt/Main 



Price: DM 79.— 



This history of microscopy in three volumes takes the form of a collection of 

 short biographies of scientists who have either contributed materially to the 

 improvement of the microscope and microscopical techniques, or whose 

 research has been intimately connected with microscopical observation and 

 technique. The editors have restricted themselves to scientists working in the 

 19th, and in the earlier decades of the 20th century. Vol. I is opened by an 

 introduction of 30 pages (with a bibliography of 14 pages) in which the 

 development of the microscope and of microscopical techniques from the early 

 17th century to the present day is surveyed in birds-view. 



Vol. I, which is devoted to biology, contains 31 biographies, each accom- 

 panied by a full-page portrait and followed by notes, a selection from the 

 works of the author concerned, and a short general bibliography. We mention 

 only the names of the best-known zoologists and biologists dealt with: 

 K. E. von Baer, K. Belaf, Th. Boveri, R. Chambers, O. Hertwig, A. Dohrn, 

 Ch. S. Minot, M. J. Schleiden, Th. Schwann and E. B. Wilson. Among the 

 authors are L. von Ubisch, Fr. Seidel, W. E. Ankel, P. Glees, E. Biinning, 

 G. C. Hirsch and Fr. Schrader. 



The book is concluded by a name index, which includes all the personal 

 names, scientific and otherwise, mentioned in the text. 



Vol. II will deal with medicine, and Vol. Ill with mineralogy, geology, micropalaeontology, 

 chemistry, metallurgy etc., as well as with those persons who have contributed significantly 

 to the improvement of microscopes. One of the most important men among the latter, E. Abbe, 

 is included in Vol. I. 



24. C. F. WOLFF AND HIS STUDIES ON THE DEVELOPMENT 

 OF THE ORGANISM 

 (in connection with the general evolution of the scientific world-view) 



1961 



by A. E. Gaisinovich Izdatelstvo Akademia 



548 pp., 32 figs. Nauk S.S.S.R. 



Moskva 



This book on the 18th century biologist, Caspar Friedrich Wolff, is written 

 in Russian, and is therefore announced by title onlv. 



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