Europeans learned about the wonders of the microscopic world from drawings like this one , created by amateur microscope enthusiast Martin Frobenius Ledermüller in the 1760s . He put bugs , plants , and quartz glass under the microscope and produced fascinating , extremely - harmonious renderings of what he take in . We ’ve got some etchings much weirder and more alien than this fly below .
I ’m not certain what this is , but it looks like something out of Lovecraft .
The results of Ledermüller ’s oeuvre were collect into a three - intensity solidification that would have been the 18th C equivalent of umber table books . All three have recently been put online , and you’re able to browse through them for gratis . Here are two photo of plant biography . The top one shows seeds sprouting , and the bottom shows mushrooms .
If you desire to see more , correspond out the three volume solidifying : Volume One(click “ see digitalized document”),Volume Two , andVolume Three .
Recreational Microscopy[via BibliOdyssey ]
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