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oapen-20.500.12657-229722024-03-22T19:23:35Z Leeuwenhoek's Legatees and Beijerinck's Beneficiaries van Doornum, Gerard van Helvoort, Ton Sankaran, Neeraja History medicine microbiology virology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKF Pathology::MKFM Medical microbiology and virology The title of the book pays tribute to two Dutch scientists without whom virology would arguably not exist today, at least not in its present guise. The first is Antony van Leeuwenhoek, whose reports of microscopic discoveries in the early eighteenth century aroused interest in the world of invisible creatures. His findings laid the basis for a theory of a particulate cause of infectious diseases, but, as George Rosen wrote, without any tangible results in support of the theory (1993/1958, pp. 84-85). Some 250 years later Martinus Willem Beijerinck launched the discipline of virology with his idea that tobacco mosaic disease (TMD) was caused by a living contagious fluid or filterable living pathogen. 2020-03-27 15:48:21 2020-04-01T08:58:06Z 2020-04-01T08:58:06Z 2020 book 1007186 9789463720113 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22972 eng application/pdf n/a 9789048544066.pdf https://www.aup.nl/en/book/ Amsterdam University Press Pallas Publications 10.5117/9789463720113 10.5117/9789463720113 dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a 9789463720113 Pallas Publications 361 Amsterdam open access
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The title of the book pays tribute to two Dutch scientists without whom
virology would arguably not exist today, at least not in its present guise. The
first is Antony van Leeuwenhoek, whose reports of microscopic discoveries
in the early eighteenth century aroused interest in the world of invisible
creatures. His findings laid the basis for a theory of a particulate cause
of infectious diseases, but, as George Rosen wrote, without any tangible
results in support of the theory (1993/1958, pp. 84-85). Some 250 years later
Martinus Willem Beijerinck launched the discipline of virology with his
idea that tobacco mosaic disease (TMD) was caused by a living contagious
fluid or filterable living pathogen.
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