The American monthly microscopical journal . two centuriesago they were better than the best used by other investigators. What modernmicroscopist would be willing, or what one would be able, to grind and polisha little globule of glass, and to mount it in brass-woik of his own manufacture,simply to gratify his wish to know some of natures But this oldDutch microscopist did that, and he did it well ; for, miserable as his micro-scopes were, with them he saw more and better than could any of his fellowmicroscopists. As Leeuwenhoek labored and studied by methods of his own in that Dutch
The American monthly microscopical journal . two centuriesago they were better than the best used by other investigators. What modernmicroscopist would be willing, or what one would be able, to grind and polisha little globule of glass, and to mount it in brass-woik of his own manufacture,simply to gratify his wish to know some of natures But this oldDutch microscopist did that, and he did it well ; for, miserable as his micro-scopes were, with them he saw more and better than could any of his fellowmicroscopists. As Leeuwenhoek labored and studied by methods of his own in that Dutchcity of Delft, his published articles were exciting the scientific world, and * For the use of the illustrations to this article we are indebted to the Science Publishing Company, which haskindly loaned them for the purpose. Copyright 1888, by C. W. Smiley. 220 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY [December, setting scientific men by the ears ; but he would never tell how he made hismicroscopes. To all inquiries he said only that he made them, refusing to.
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