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THE 



ELECT W O R K S 



O F 



ANTONY VAN LEEUWENHOEK, 



CONTAINING HIS 



MICROSCOPICAL DISCOFERIES 



IN MANY OF THE WORKS OF NATURE. 



TRANSLATED FROM THE DUTCH AND LATIN EDITIONS PUBLISHED EY THE AUTHOR, 



By SAMUEL HOOLE. 



VOLUME THE I'IRST— PART the FIRST. 



Wanneerje fchoone dingen fiet, 

 Vergiept u aeii het fchcprd niet ; 

 Oock wilt daer op niet blyven flaen, 

 Macr laet uw' finnen verder gaeu ? 

 Ey klimt ! o licve, klimt om hoog, 

 En metten geell, en mettet oog, 

 En fiet, dat gy tot hem geiiaeckt; 

 Die al wat fchoon.is heeft gemaeckt. 



yac. Cats iverhny tweede deelpag. 400, 'tDruk, ijiS. 



Inde hominum pecudumque genus, vitseque volantum 

 Et quas marmoreo fert monftra fub aequore pontus. 



V'lrg. /En. vi. 728, 729, 



*' Lo, thefe are parts of his ways : but how 

 little a portion is heard of him ? 



Job. xxvi. 14, 



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By G. SIDNEY, Black-Horse Court, Fleet-S.treet; 



And fold by G. and W. Nicol, Bookfellers to his Majefty, Pall-Maii ; J, White, Fleet-Street; 

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