Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 659

LOUIS JOBLOT (1647-1723) Observations d'histoire naturelle, faites avec le microscope, sur un grand nombre d'insectes, & sur les animalcules qui se trouvent dans les liqueurs préparées. Chez Briasson 1754-1755 Vol. I: Pt. I: xx, 38 pp., 14 plates; Pt. II: [2] 124 pp., 15 plates; Vol. II: Pt. I: vi, 78 pp.; Pt. II: 27 pp., 24 plates. 25.5 cm.

This important work is of great interest in the history and development of the microscope as well as to the science of protozoology. In it, Joblot, a French contemporary of Leeuwenhoek, presented the first specialized treatise on the protozoa. The first edition was published in 1716, and this second edition contains many additional illustrations of minute animal organisms. The last twenty-four plates show the construction of the microscope which even then was a complex instrument.

Cited references: Wellcome III, p. 356

Gift of John Martin, M.D.