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    Nicolaas Hartsoeker (26 March 1656 – 10 December 1725) was a Dutch mathematician and physicist who invented the screw-barrel simple microscope c. 1694...
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  • homunculus was later used in the discussion of conception and birth. Nicolas Hartsoeker postulated the existence of animalcules in the semen of humans and other...
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    complex structure and, for human sperm, a soul. (Friedman 79) In 1694, Nicolaas Hartsoeker, in his Essai de Dioptrique concerning things large and small that...
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  • Everaerts (1461–1532), Dutch jurist Nicolaas Hartsoeker (1656–1725), Dutch mathematician, physicist, and microscopist Nicolaas Heinsius the Elder (1620–1681)...
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    A tiny person (a homunculus) inside a sperm, as drawn by Nicolaas Hartsoeker in 1695...
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    Sperms as preformed humans. Painting of Nicolaas Hartsoeker 1695...
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  • – Domenico Freschi, Italian priest and composer (d. 1710) 1656 – Nicolaas Hartsoeker, Dutch mathematician and physicist (d. 1725) 1687 – Sophia Dorothea...
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    a book on Peruvian silver mines in Potosí. Like Robert Boyle and Nicolaas Hartsoeker, Van Leeuwenhoek was interested in dried cochineal, trying to find...
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    using the observatory recently completed in 1672. He introduced Nicolaas Hartsoeker to French scientists such as Nicolas Malebranche and Giovanni Cassini...
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    (1600–1667) a Dutch author of mathematical tables and book publisher Nicolaas Hartsoeker (1656–1725) a mathematician and physicist, invented the screw-barrel...
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