Hoe Constantijn Huygens Antoni van Leeuwenhoek vooruit hielp

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Delft, D. van

Year:

2022

Hoe Constantijn Huygens Antoni van Leeuwenhoek vooruit hielp
How Constantijn Huygens helped Antoni van Leeuwenhoek move forward

This video, uploaded by Ineke Huysman, comes from a lecture series that she organized on 22 December 2022: Constantijn Huygens. Een leven in brieven.

In one of the lectures, Dirk van Delft, author of Onzichtbaar Leven, spoke about how Huygens encouraged Leeuwenhoek early in his career.

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Year	Author	Title
2022	Delft, D. van	Onzichtbaar leven

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Date	Event
August 8, 1673	mentor Constantijn Huygens wrote to Robert Hooke about Leeuwenhoek as "exceedingly curious and industrious"
February 12, 1674	Constantijn Huygens wrote to Oldenburg about Leeuwenhoek and his own single-lens microscope
January 26, 1677	Constantijn Huygens wrote to Oldenburg about Leeuwenhoek, a "painstaking man" who should be "cherished"
December 8, 1677	Constantijn Huygens wrote Letter L-062 to Leeuwenhoek about his observations of sperm
May 4, 1679	mentor Constantijn Huygens, writing to his son Christiaan, called Leeuwenhoek the "bourgeois philosopher of Delft"

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