Article ID: CBB944754320

Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787–1869) and His Instruments for Microscopic Research in the Field of Neuroscience (2017)

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The findings obtained by the famous nineteenth-century Czech scientist Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787–1869) in the field of microscopic structure of animal and human tissues, including the brain, spinal cord, and nerves, have already been described in depth in a number of older and newer publications. The present article contains an overview of the instruments and tools that Purkyně and his assistants used for microscopic research of tissue histology. Some of these instruments were developed either by Purkyně alone, such as the microtomic compressor, or together with his assistant Adolph Oschatz, such as the microtome. A brief overview of the development of the cutting engines suggests that the first microtome, a prototype of modern sliding microtomes, was designed and constructed under the supervision of Purkyně at the Institute of Physiology in Wrocław. Purkyně and his assistants, thus, not only obtained important findings of animal and human nervous and other tissues but also substantially contributed to the development of instruments and tools for their study, a fact often forgotten today.

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Authors & Contributors
Zuidervaart, Huib J.
Anderson, Douglas R.
Anderson, Nancy Ann
Andrietti, Francesco
Bracegirdle, Brian
Elwick, James M.
Journals
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Asclepio: Archivo Iberoamericano de Historia de la Medicina
British Journal for the History of Science
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
History of European Ideas
Publishers
Cornell University
University of Michigan
Feltrinelli
Pickering & Chatto
Quekett Microscopical Club
Concepts
Microscopy
Microscopes
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Neurosciences
Biology
Optics
People
Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van
Divini, Eustachio
Eliot, George
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von
Müller, Johannes Peter
Ramón y Cajal, Santiago
Time Periods
19th century
17th century
18th century
20th century
20th century, early
16th century
Places
Great Britain
Netherlands
Europe
Germany
Spain
London (England)
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