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id: 36903
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  The Nucleus of the Vorticella--Methods of Reproduction--Ciliated Protozoa--Wheel-bearers or Rotifers--


id: 36903
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  Description--Motions of Rotifers--Indications of a Will--Remarks on the Motions of Lower Creatures--Various Theories--


# bib

id: 15491
author: Hooke, Robert
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  of _water_ to some other _solid Bodies_) of this kind we may observe that for taking a small Wine-glass, or such like Vessel, and pouring water means _chymists_ usually cut off the necks of Glass-bodies, by two kinds of First, That all kind of _fiery burning Bodies_ have their parts in motion, refractions, and one reflection, by the surface of the round body, we shall colour''d bodies and several kinds of tinctures or ting''d liquors, all and such like minute bodies, or steams, are observ''d to tinge a very great the circumstances of such kind of Figur''d bodies, will, I think, have great substances, may produce various kinds of Insects, or Animate bodies: For we observable upon divers kinds of _putrify''d_ bodies, whether Animal Air, or a small _atome_ almost of water or liquor, and a little heat to and other kinds of Gnats, was placed a small body, N, much resembling a

title:
  Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon


id: 23169
title: The Diamond Lens
author: O''Brien, Fitz James
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  I placed beneath my instrument I believed that I discovered wonders How I longed to discover the secret of some perfect lens, whose a small diamond--that stone, from its great refracting power, having On the present occasion, Simon entered my room in a state of There was a light in Simon''s room as I entered my house. "Simon," said I, "I have just come from Madame Vulpes." "Simon, she told me wonderful things to-night, or rather "My dear Simon," I said, "I am entirely at a loss to know what you mean. and, fixing my eyes on him with a quiet smile, said, "Simon, I have While Simon was relating this to me, I regarded the great diamond knew of the possession of the diamond by Simon, so that no motive was a mirror, a powerful stream of light, I approached my eye to the minute


id: 38428
author: Sargent, Frederick Leroy
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  lens thus forms a part of that optical instrument called your eye. to the size they would have if projected ten inches off, like our little eye" lens mounted on a stand, which you can place beside your microscope The most beautiful of the small _algÃ¦_ or water plants are the into the water and looks like three small balls fastened together; The microscope reveals so many strange odd-looking water creatures and hollow to hold a few drops of water, and put a tiny piece of the plant To the naked eye it looks like green slime, and is called "frog''s through the water, changing their places like animals. _Figures_ 10 and 11 are different forms of a little animal, _Trichoda pretty little creature, and, like the skeleton, is encased in a glassy When you are looking for various microscopic objects in pond water you

title:
  Through a Microscope Something of the Science, Together with many Curious Observations Indoor and Out and Directions for a Home-made Microscope.


id: 36903
author: Slack, Henry James
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  eye-pieces, giving with a two thirds object-glass powers of sixty one "Slow-steppers," or Water Bears, queer little creatures, something like tissues are clear, like glass; but the body of the creature is of a rich the lower creatures are like the imperfect stages of higher animals, and typical forms of this organ, and drawing our illustrations from Mr. Gosse''s admirable paper in the "Transactions of the Royal Society," we one (a shrimp-like looking creature, carrying behind her a great bag of organized creature, having its body protected by a _carapace_, like the hours a young Floscule escaped, looking very much like a clumsy little motion inside this creature--Large eye and brain--Powerful motion inside this creature--Large eye and brain--Powerful creatures, like the _Euglenæ_ already described, and whose little red water was a lively long-tailed rotifer, with a small oval body, a tuft The general form and structure of these objects was like the drawings

title:
  Marvels of Pond-life Or, A Year''s Microscopic Recreations Among the Polyps, Infusoria, Rotifers, Water-bears and Polyzoa


id: 50332
title: The Diamond Lens
author: O''Brien, Fitz James
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  of a single lens of such vast yet perfect power, was possible of on a small diamond--that stone, from its great refracting power, On the present occasion, Simon entered my room in a state of "Am I to understand you, Monsieur Simon, that this Mrs. Vulpes replied "I know what they mean," said Mrs. Vulpes, addressing herself to me; There was a light in Simon''s room as I entered my house. "Simon," said I, "I have just come from Madame Vulpes." "My dear Simon," I said, "I am entirely at a loss to know what you While Simon was relating this to me, I regarded the great diamond Leeuwenhoek communicates to me the great secret of the microscope, the myself of Simon''s diamond. house to Simon himself, it was necessary that the door should be found prism and a mirror, a powerful stream of light, I approached my eye to


