The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs (1883)
Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892 · Philadelphia and Chicago, J. A. Ruth & co. · leaf 152
observations made by it that some animalculespropagate so rapidly that one of them in four days wouldproduce over 70,000,000,000 of its species, f It alsoshows us that 300,000 of these animate bodies may in-habit a drop of water. A species of fungus {hovista gi-gantea) has been known to increase… … NEW NATIONAL MICROSCOPE. (147) 148 THE MICEOSCOPE AND THE TELESCOPE. importance in innumerable departments of labor, bothscientific and practical. The world knew but compara-tively little of the minuter composition of the humanbody until the microscope gave its potent assistance.To medicine, it has…
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