This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...prolific source of help to scores of artificers in wood, iron, gold, and silver. It needs but a moment's consideration to see that Nature yields a boundless variety of combinations and devices, useful in thousands of ways, and that, as a rule, her beauties are only hidden from those who will not make the effort to see ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...prolific source of help to scores of artificers in wood, iron, gold, and silver. It needs but a moment's consideration to see that Nature yields a boundless variety of combinations and devices, useful in thousands of ways, and that, as a rule, her beauties are only hidden from those who will not make the effort to see them. But when we turn to the microscopic forms of life, we are astonished that so much beauty should be accorded to objects so small, and so apparently unimportant, and we marvel at the loveliness hidden in a mere speck and only made visible by a powerful magnifier. It may be that these wonders of Nature are intended for our study, to teach us the importance of being accurate, and that in them we may have before us at all times the handiwork of God and evidences of His wisdom. Leuwenhoek (1632--1723) states that in three months a single house-fly can produce 746,496 eggs; and Linnaeus, calculating on the voracity of the hungry offspring of a fly, states that, in warm climates, three flies destroy the dead body of a horse as quickly as a lion. According to Sir Richard Owen it requires nineteen figures to express the numerical offspring of a single aphis in the tenth generation. Notwithstanding the extraordinary fecundity of insects their eggs are marvels of beauty. But to our limited vision the human eye only sees the general shape and colour of these tiny objects. Let them be viewed with the aid of the microscope, and at once their delicate chisellings and mechanism appear. Some insects lay oval eggs, others cylindrical, others spherical. Some eggs are like Grecian waterbottles, others have crowns on the top. Some have rims, grooves, and projecting points of ornamentation. In some the lines around the exterior entwine in beautiful order, in o...
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