
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Leeuwenhoek , Antoni van (1999-06-01), The Collected Letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek -, CRC, Retrieved on 2012-06-11Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: biography autobiography Memes
11 JUN 2012
Tiny Legs
But many of our imaginations and investigations of nature are futile, especially when we see little living animals and see their legs and must judge the same to be ten thousand times thinner than a hair of my beard, and when I see animals living that are more than a hundred times smaller and am unable to observe any legs at all, I still conclude from their structure and the movements of their bodies that they do have legs... and therefore legs in proportion to their bodies, just as is the cas...Leeuwenhoek observes that there are animals that move, but are too small to see their legs, but he knows they have legs and that those legs must somehow carry nutrients within them.