Swammerdam
Americannoun
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A contemporary of Leeuwenhoek’s, Jan Swammerdam, showed that butterflies, which had been regarded as new creatures born out of the pupa, were already present within the caterpillar: their organs could be identified by dissection.
From Literature
“In nature there is no generation,” the Dutch scientist Jan Swammerdam wrote in 1669, “but only propagation.”
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The Dutch physician Jan Swammerdam dissected countless insect specimens to help dispel the notion that each phase of an insect was a completely different species of animal.
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Pascal gave up science after a religious experience; so did the Protestant Jan Swammerdam, one of the first great microscopists.
From Nature
It all started when Jan Swammerdam used a scalpel to peel away the outer layers of a certain insect.
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