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Chapter 7


The first illustration made with a microscope: Stelluti's drawing of a bee, in a pastiche of Pope Urban VIII's coat of arms (1625). Taken from here.

Hooke's picture of a flea, at its original size.


Leeuwenhoek's 1678 drawing of "vessels" in semen, which he subsequently accepted were an artifact. They were published in the Philosophical Transactions volume 12.


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