Word: animalcula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year 1675 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water, which had stood but few days in a new earthen pot. . . . When these animalcula or living atoms moved, they put forth two little horns, continually moving. . . . These little creatures, if they chanced to light on the least filament or string, or other particles, were entangled therein, extending their body in a long round and endeavoring to disentangle their tail. . . . I have seen several thousands of these poor little creatures, within the space of a grain of gross sand, lie fast clustered together in a few filaments...
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