IX. An account of Mr. Leeuwenhoek's microscopes

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London · 1740 · 15 citations · 0 references

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Abstract Having been favoured by this Illustrious Society with an Opportunity of examining the much-talked-of Microscopes of the famous Mr. <italic>Leeuwenhoek</italic>, who, by his Glasses, made such wonderful Discoveries in the <italic>Minutuæ</italic> of Nature, as have laid the Foundation of a Philosophy unknown to preceding Ages; I think it incumbent on me to shew the Use I have been making of them.