- better-known
types of
animalcule include: Actinophrys, and
other heliozoa,
termed sun
animalcules. Amoeba,
termed Proteus animalcules.
Noctiluca scintillans...
-
called these microscopic living organisms "
animalcules",
meaning "little animals".
Those "very
little animalcules" he was able to
isolate from
different sources...
- "wheel", and -fer, "bearing"),
commonly called wheel animals or
wheel animalcules, make up a
phylum (Rotifera /roʊˈtɪfərə/) of
microscopic and near-microscopic...
- Stentor,
sometimes called trumpet animalcules, are a
genus of filter-feeding,
heterotrophic ciliates,
representative of the heterotrichs. They are usually...
- the same time, and that
succeeding generations grow from homunculi, or
animalcules, that have
existed since the
beginning of creation,
which is typically...
- later, he
discovered in the open gl**** tube 'a
great many very
little animalcules, of
divers sort
having its own
particular motion.' Not
expecting to see...
-
Sperm were
believed to
contain complete preformed individuals called "
animalcules".
Development was
therefore a
matter of
enlarging this into a
fully formed...
- diertjes. He was the
first to
relatively determine their size. Most of the "
animalcules" are now
referred to as
unicellular organisms,
although he
observed multicellular...
-
Dutch microscopist Antonie van
Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723)
discovered "
animalcules" in the
sperm of
humans and
other animals. Some
scientists speculated...
-
Antonie van
Leeuwenhoek using a microscope. He
described them as
being animalcules (little animals),
probably due to his
belief in preformationism, which...
