. Biology and its makers : with portraits and other illustrations. Biology -- History. S6 BIOLOGY AND ITS MAKERS mammals circular. He reserved the term ' globule' for those of the human body, erroneously believing them to be spheroidal. Other Discoveries.—Among his other discoveries bear- ing on physiology and medicine miay be mentioned: the branched character of heart muscles, the stripe in voluntary muscles, the structure of the crystalline lens, tlie description of spermatozoa after they had been pointed out to him in 1674 by Hamen, a student in Leyden, etc. Richard- son dignified
. Biology and its makers : with portraits and other illustrations. Biology -- History. S6 BIOLOGY AND ITS MAKERS mammals circular. He reserved the term ' globule' for those of the human body, erroneously believing them to be spheroidal. Other Discoveries.—Among his other discoveries bear- ing on physiology and medicine miay be mentioned: the branched character of heart muscles, the stripe in voluntary muscles, the structure of the crystalline lens, tlie description of spermatozoa after they had been pointed out to him in 1674 by Hamen, a student in Leyden, etc. Richard- son dignified him with the title'the founder of histology,' but this, in view of the wor]>: of his great contemporary, Malpighi, seems to me an overestimate. Turning his microscope in all directions, he examined water and found it peopled with minute animalcules, those simple forms of animal life propelled through the water by innumerable hair-like cilia extending from the body like banks of oars from a galley, except that in many cases they extend from all surfaces. He saw not only the animalcules, but also the cilia that their bodies. He also discovered the Rotifers, those favorites of the amateur microscopists, made so familiar to the general public in works like Gosse's Evenings at the Microscope. He observed that when water containing these animalcules evaporated they were reduced to fine dust, but became alive again, after great lapses of time, by the introduction of water. Fig. 21.—PlantCells. (From Leeuwen- ^^ many hoek's Arcana Natures.) observations on the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Locy, William A. (William Albert), 1857-1924. New York : Henry Holt
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