Animalcule - Wikipedia
Animalcule (Latin for 'little animal'; from animal and -culum) is an archaic term for microscopic organisms that included bacteria, protozoans, and very small animals. The word was invented by 17th-century Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek to refer to the microorganisms he observed in rainwater. Some better-known types of animalcule include:
Leeuwenhoek's 'animalcules', just as he saw them 340 years ago
2015年5月20日 · These pictures – of the surface of a head louse and blood cells – show the type of images that Dutch biologist and microscope pioneer Antoni van Leeuwenhoek observed in the late 1600s when he...
"Animalcules" - Lens on Leeuwenhoek
If they know anything about Leeuwenhoek, it's "animalcules", usually spoken with a little grin. So quaint!The word animalcule had a brief life in English. It was first used in 1599, had its heyday in the century after Leeuwenhoek’s death, and it was not used much after the mid-1800s.
Van Leeuwenhoek’s discovery of “animalcules”
2018年10月23日 · In 1674 he looked at the water from a lake near Delft and was surprised to see tiny microscopic unicellular pond-water organisms which he called animalcules (1676).
Early Microscopes Revealed a New World of Tiny Living Things
2016年4月27日 · Van Leeuwenhoek examined samples he took from his own mouth and from water glasses and found them teeming with what he called “animalcules.” “When these animalcula or living Atoms did move, they...
The unseen world: reflections on Leeuwenhoek (1677) ‘Concerning …
In these reflections on the scientific reach of Leeuwenhoek's ideas and observations, I equate his questions with the preoccupations of our genomic era: what is the nature of Leeuwenhoek's animalcules, where do they come from, how do they relate to each other?
Animalcule - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Being rich in fascinating features and exhibiting enormous variety, ciliates (“infusoria”) and rotifers (“wheel animalcules ”) were among the first microscopically small animals to be described by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek in 1674 (published in 1702) and John Harris in 1696 (published in Hudson and Gosse, 1886).
From Observing Little Animalcules to Detecting Fastidious …
2023年12月20日 · The animalcules have become variously known as germs, microbes, bacteria, micro-organisms or simply ‘organisms.’” Leeuwenhoek’s descriptions represent the primordial steps down a path that eventually proved the role of his “little creatures” to be the etiologic agents of infectious disease.
Animalcule | biology | Britannica
In biology: The discovery of animalcules …many protozoans, which he called animalcules. He observed the connections between the arteries and veins; gave particularly fine accounts of the microscopic structure of muscle, the lens of the eye, the teeth, and other structures; and recognized bacteria of different shapes, postulating that they ...
Animalcules was the name given by Anthony van Leeuwenhoek to the multitude of organisms that he saw through his elementary microscope, and described in a letter to a friend, written on Feb 9, 1702, as follows: “I took a drop or so of this water and looked at it through the microscope; and I discovered a great many animalcules