BOREL, Pierre [BORELLUS.]
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Historiarum et observationum medico-physicarum centuria prima (-secunda).Castris (Castres): apud A. Colomerium, 1653.The first work to apply microscopy to medicine. Borel described 200 observations and applications; he probably saw the blood corpuscles and Sarcoptes scabiei. Subjects: MICROBIOLOGY, Microscopy |
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Bibliotheca chimica. Seu catalogus liborum philosophicorum hermeticorum. In quo quatuor millia ciciter, authorem chimicorum vel de transmutatione metallorum, re minerali & arcanis, tam manuscriptorum, quam in lucem editorum, cum eorum editionibus, usque ad annum 1653 continentur.Paris: Carol du Mesnil & Thomas Jolly, 1654.The first independent bibliography of chemistry and alchemy, citing 4000 books and manuscripts, including authors or titles now lost or obtainable today only with great difficulty. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographical Classics, BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Chemistry / Biochemistry |
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De vero telescopii inventore.The Hague: A. Vlacq, 1655.Borel collected evidence to show that Zacharias (sometimes called Zacharias Janssen) invented the compound microscope about 1590. Zacharias was a spectacle-maker of Middelburg, Holland. Subjects: Microscopy |