Editing Jan Swammerdam (section)

==Legacy==

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Together with his father he collected 6,000 objects in 27 drawer cabinets. Swammerdam's ''Historia insectorum generalis'' was widely known and applauded before he died. Two years after his death in 1680 it was translated into French and in 1685 it was translated into Latin. [[John Ray]], author of the 1705 ''Historia insectorum'', praised  Swammerdam' methods, they were "the best of all".<ref name="ReferenceC"/> Though Swammerdam's work on insects and anatomy was significant, many current histories remember him as much for his methods and skill with microscopes as for his discoveries. He developed new techniques for examining, preserving, and dissecting specimens, including wax injection to make viewing blood vessels easier. A method he invented for the preparation of hollow human organs was later much employed in anatomy.<ref name=ac/> He had corresponded with contemporaries across Europe and his friends [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] and [[Nicolas Malebranche]] used his microscopic research to substantiate their own natural and moral philosophy.<ref name="ReferenceC"/> But Swammerdam has also been credited with heralding the natural theology of the 18th century, were God's grand design was detected in the mechanics of the [[Solar System]], the [[seasons]], [[snowflakes]] and the anatomy of the human eye.<ref name="ReferenceC"/> An English translation of his entomological works by T. Floyd was published in 1758.<ref name=ac/>

No authentic portrait of Jan Swammerdam is extant nowadays.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://janswammerdam.org.seanic11.net/portrait.html|title=Jan Swammerdam's "portrait"|access-date=22 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022020307/http://janswammerdam.org.seanic11.net/portrait.html|archive-date=22 October 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> The portrait shown in the header is derived from the painting ''The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Tulp'' by [[Rembrandt]] and represents the leading Amsterdam physician Hartman Hartmanzoon (1591–1659).