apothecary and naturalist collector Jan Jacobszoon (1xxx-1xxx)
Baertje Jans Corvers (1xxx-1661) (mother) ;
studies medicine at University of Leyden
Netherlands
Herman Boerhaave ed: Swammerdams Biblia naturae (1737-8, translated into English as The Book of Nature, 1758) ; Swammerdam: Historia Insectorum Generalis (1669) & Algemeene Verhandeling van de bloedeloose dierkens (1669) ;