200 THE MINUTE ANATOMISTS 



ANTONY VAN LEEUWENHOEK 



1632-1723 



Leeuwenhoek's papers, most of which appeared in the 

 Philosophical Transactions, were collected and reprinted 

 from time to time in small volumes, a list of which is 

 given below. These volumes, not all issued by the same 

 publisher, are generally found bound in four volumes, 

 which bear the misleading title of Opera Omnia. They 

 were not re-edited, and each collection has its own name, 

 pagination and index. We shall quote the collections 

 by the abbreviations given in the following list, adding 

 the volume and page of the collection most often met 

 with (4 vols. Lugd. Batav., 1722), but bad arrangement 

 and confused pagination will sometimes make it hard to 

 find the passages cited. 



Anatomia, seu interiora rerum cum animatarum turn inanimarum (sic) ope, 



. . . raicroscopiorum detecta. 2 pts. Lugd. Batav. 1687. [Anat.) 

 Arcanse Natura detecta. 4to. Delphis Batav. 1695. {Arc. Nat.) 

 Continuatio Arcanorum Natures detectorum. 4to. Delphis Batav. 1697. 



(Gont. Arc. Nat.) 



Epistolse physiologicae. 4to. Delphis 1719. {Ep. phys.) 



Epistolse ad Societatem Regiam Anglicam . . . seu Continuatio Arcanorum 



Naturae detectorum. 4to. Lugd. Batav. 1719. {Ep. Soc. B.) 



Continuatio Epistolarum ... ad Regiam Societatem Londinensem. 4to. 



Lugd. Batav. 1689. {Cont. Epist.) 



Nearly all the great naturalists of the seventeenth cen- 

 tury (it will suffice to mention the names of Malpighi, 

 Redi, Swammerdam and Eay) were learned men, who had 

 studied under eminent professors. Among them Leeu- 

 wenhoek, a man who owed nothing to any university, 

 and knew no language but his own, won a high place. ^ 

 In the new age of scientific discovery which had just 

 opened such examples were to become frequent. Leeu- 



^ Leeuwenhoek in a letter to the Royal Society, dated Jan. 22, 1676, explains 

 that he can read Dutch only. 



