| 词汇 | leeuwenhoek-s little animals |
| 词源 | Leeuwenhoek’s little animals. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723), a former Dutch linen maker who designed a very powerful single-lens microscope, changed the course of science with his observations of the “animalcules” in a drop of pond water and his observations helped disprove the doctrine of spontaneous generation (that eels are generated from sand, grubs from wheat, and so on), making Leeuwenhoek’s little ani- mals a phrase that has lived for centuries. |
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