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See also:SWAMMERDAM, See also:JAN (1637-168o) , Dutch naturalist, was See also:born on the 12th of See also:February 1637 at See also:Amsterdam, the son of an See also:apothecary and naturalist. He was destined for the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church; but he preferred the profession of See also:medicine, taking his See also:doctor's degree at See also:Leiden in 1667. Having necessarily to See also:interest himself in human See also:anatomy, he.devoted much See also:attention to the preservation and better demonstration of the various structures, and he devised the method of studying the circulatory See also:system by means of injections. He also spent much See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in the study of See also:insects, investigating the subject of their See also:metamorphosis, and in this and other ways laying the beginnings of their natural See also:classification, while his researches on the anatomy of mayflies and bees were also of See also:great importance. His devotion to See also:science led to his neglect of practice; his See also:father, resenting this, stopped all supplies and thus Swammerdam experienced a See also:period of considerable privation, which had the most unfortunate See also:con-sequences to his See also:health, both bodily and See also:mental. In 1675 his father died, leaving him an adequate See also:fortune, but the See also:mischief was irreparable, He became a hypochondriac and mystic, joined the followers of Antoinette See also:Bourignon, and died at Amsterdam on the 15th of February 1680.
His Allgemeene 'Verhandeling See also:van bloedeloase diertjens appeared at See also:Utrecht in 1669, and his Biblia naturae, sive Historic insectorum in certas classes redacta was published after his See also:death by H. Boerhaeve in 1737-1738. He was also the author of Miraculum naturae, ;See also:ea Uteri muliebris fabrica (Leiden, 1672).
End of Article: SWAMMERDAM, JAN (1637-168o)
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