In 1625 the first printed illustrations of insects … [Galileo's compound microscopes]: [Galileo Sept. 1624, translator, Drake] " … I have observed many tiny animals with great … with great satisfaction I have seen how flies … In short the greatness of nature can be … [we may now see] how subtly and with what unspeakable care she works.
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