The Collected Letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek -

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…

Jun 11, 2012 1

• observation
• perspective
• scale