 | Sir John Leslie - Hydrostatics - 1829 - 556 pages
...and functions, the most transcendent attenuation of matter. The vibrio undttla, found in duck-weed, is computed to be ten thousand million times smaller than a hemp seed. The vibrio lineola occurs in vegetable infusions, every drop containing myriads of those oblong points.... | |
 | Thomas Antisell - Industrial arts - 1852 - 728 pages
...display in their structure and functions the most transcendant attenuation of motter. The Vibrio wndvla, found in duck weed, is computed to be ten thousand million, times smaller than a hemp seed. The Vibrio lintvla occurs in vegetable infusions, evcrv drop containing mvriads of these oblong points.... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Astronomy - 1852 - 606 pages
...-weed, ore sporting about in one drop of liquid: and that the Vibrio undula, found on the same plant, is computed to be ten thousand million times smaller than a hemp seed. Now, if it be admitted that these little animals are possessed of organized parts, such as a heart,... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...weed, are sporting about in one drop of liquid : and that the Vibrio undula, found on the same plant, is computed to be ten thousand million times smaller than a hemp seed. Now, if it be admitted that these little animals are possessed of organized parts, such as a heart,... | |
 | Geology - 1830 - 470 pages
...animal kingdoms afford the most wonderful instances of the attenuation of matter. The vibrio undula, found in duck weed, is computed to be ten thousand million times smaller than a hemp seed ; and the mono* gelatinosa, discovered in ditch water, appears, in the field of a microscope, a mere... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 632 pages
...and functions, the most transcendent attenuation of matter. The vibrio vndula, found in duck-weed, is computed to be ten thousand million times smaller than a hemp seed. The vibrio lineola occurs in vegetable infusions, every drop containing myriads of those oblong points.... | |
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... has been computed to contain a billion of perfect insects ; so that thousands of these living creatures could be lifted on the point of a needle. But the infusory animalcules display, in their structure and functions, the most transcendent attenuation... 