The wonders of the microscope; or, an explanation of the wisdom of the Creator in objects comparatively minute : adapted to the understanding of young persons. Illustrated with five large copper-plates.

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[1806?]
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Credit: The wonders of the microscope; or, an explanation of the wisdom of the Creator in objects comparatively minute : adapted to the understanding of young persons. Illustrated with five large copper-plates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tides are those plants composed, and into which they may be divided. If the particles of water are so small, that millions of ani- malcules may be suspended on the point of a needle, how many must there be in the rivers and seas which cover so large a part of the earth ? If from a lighted candle there issue, in a minute, many more particles of light than there are grains of sand in the whole earth, what must be the number that flow in a day, or a year, or a century, from the immense body of the sun ? How inde- finitely small must those particles of odo- riferous bodies be which fill large spaces with their odour, for days and even weeks, without any sensible loss of their weight ? Let us pass to the animated creation. In a summer’s evening the air swarms with living creatures. Each drop of stagnant water contains a little world of animated beings. On each leaf of a tree is seated a colony of insects : every plant, every flower, affords food for millions of creatures. Every person capable of observation and reflec- tion must have seen the innumerable swarms of flies, gnats, and other insects collected together