Sentences with word «animalcules»
When Leeuwenhoek sent a 17 - and - a-half-page letter to the Royal Society describing his discovery of animalcules for publication in the new, and first, scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions, it was met with such skepticism that even Hooke thought it was a delusion.
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Strange, that it seems more, not less, urgent to play some part in this struggle, this brief effort of animalcules striving to win for their race some increase of lucidity before the ultimate darkness.
He was astonished to see, for the first time, the presence of animalcules on his teeth and gums.
Introduction to the Rotifera Rotifers: the wheel animalcules Rotifers are microscopic aquatic animals of the phylum Rotifera.
We are carriers of animalcules.
When a 17th - century Dutch draper told London's finest minds he had seen «animalcules» through his home - made microscope, they took some convincing
Hand - colored engravings show the kinds of «animalcules» Leeuwenhoek observed and recorded with his superior microscope.
Indeed, animals like us harbor huge numbers of animalcules and help distribute them around the planet through our excretions and secretions.
He also noted that when he drank hot coffee in the morning, the animalcules in his mouth died; it was the first observation that heat killed microbes.
The discovery of animalcules was itself unforeseen.
Such instruments allow a human to see blood cells as well as animal sperm and single - celled organisms, including the «animalcules» that Leeuwenhoek observed.
Late 1600s Dutch merchant Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, using microscopes of his own making, discovers «animalcules» bustling around in pond water, drops of blood and the scum from his own teeth.
Hooke was the first to record cells, seen in thin slices of cork, while Leeuwenhoek described tiny «animalcules», invisible to the naked eye, in rain water in 1676.
So ever since Galileo spotted the moons of Jupiter and van Leeuwenhoek watched his animalcules wriggle around, the rest of us have been fascinated by this invisible world made present for us by clever scientists and engineers.