Leeuwenhoeks Legatees and Beijerincks Beneficiaries
The title of the book pays tribute to two Dutch scientists without whomvirology would arguably not exist today, at least not in its present guise. Thefirst is Antony van Leeuwenhoek, whose reports of microscopic discoveriesin the early eighteenth century aroused interest in the world of invisiblecre...
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2020
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The title of the book pays tribute to two Dutch scientists without whomvirology would arguably not exist today, at least not in its present guise. Thefirst is Antony van Leeuwenhoek, whose reports of microscopic discoveriesin the early eighteenth century aroused interest in the world of invisiblecreatures. His findings laid the basis for a theory of a particulate causeof infectious diseases, but, as George Rosen wrote, without any tangibleresults in support of the theory (1993/1958, pp. 84-85). Some 250 years laterMartinus Willem Beijerinck launched the discipline of virology with hisidea that tobacco mosaic disease (TMD) was caused by a living contagiousfluid or filterable living pathogen
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