Definition of Swammerdam

1. Noun. Dutch naturalist and microscopist who proposed a classification of insects and who was among the first to recognize cells in animals and was the first to see red blood cells (1637-1680).

Exact synonyms: Jan Swammerdam
Generic synonyms: Microscopist, Natural Scientist, Naturalist

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Literary usage of Swammerdam

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Copepodologist's Cabinet: A Biographical and Bibliographical History by David M. Damkaer (2002)
"Jan swammerdam 12 February 1637-17 February 1680 Of the near-microscopic and free-living Crustacea, the earliest to be revealed to science was a cladoceran, ..."

2. The Natural History of Insects by James Rennie, John Obadiah Westwood (1835)
"Theory of swammerdam — Theory of Herold — Observations, thereon — Analogy of Insect Transformations with the Development of higher Animals and Man — No ..."

3. Insect Architecture by James Rennie (1830)
"The spider's thread," says swammerdam, " is generally made up of two or more parts, and after descending by such a thread, it ascends by one only, ..."

4. A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and by William Tooke, William Beloe, Robert Nares (1798)
"... between -swammerdam and his father, did all that lay in his power to engage ... and going to live at the court of Florence; but swammerdam, who hated a ..."

5. The History of Silk, Cotton, Linen, Wool, and Other Fibrous Substances by Clinton G. Gilroy (1845)
"Opinions of Redi, swammerdam, and Kirby—2. Lister, Kirby, and White —3. La Pluche and Bingley—4. ..."

6. Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and by Henry Hallam (1882)
"... carry farther the anatomy of these little animals, or to be more exact in the description of their organs.'' possess.' swammerdam, a Dutch naturalist, ..."

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