Waarom Vond van Leeuwenhoek Geen Navolging?
Journal:
Nederlandsch tijdschrift voor geneeskunde
Volume:
95.IV.51. P 3887-3892
Publisher:
Vereniging NTvG
Year:
1951
Title translated
Why did Leeuwenhoek not find a following?
The author's answer:
- He kept his best lenses a secret.
- He kept his lens grinding technique a secret. We can hardly blame him for this. Secrecy was pretty much common practice at the time.
- He was unsystematic in his research. He did not set up or prepare a general theory of microbiology, nor did he build a system of various forms.
- His writings were completely unsystematic; his finds were scattered among descriptions of entirely different things.
Only the second one has any validity, in my opinion.