Of the pearled Eyes of Infeds. 22^ 
to each of thefe, fince the whole Picture of 
Objeds painted thereon mufl be Millions of 
Times lefs than the Images of them pic¬ 
tured on the human Eye! 
If we cut off the Eye of a Dragon-Fly, of 
a Drone, or a common Fly, and with a Pencil 
and fome clean Water wa£h out all the Vef- 
fels, thofe Veffels may be examined by the 
Microfcope, and the Numbers of them will 
appear wonderful and furprizings and then 
if the outward Covering be dried carefully; 
fo as not to (brink, it will be rightly pre¬ 
pared for making Experiments with the 
Microfcope: arid, upon vievHng it, we Oral! 
perfedly diflingUifh the numerous Protu¬ 
berances or Hemifpheres, divided from one 
another, with a fmall Light iffuing between 
them, and fix Sides to each. Mr. Leeu¬ 
wenhoek, having prepared an Eye in this 
Manner, placed it a little farther from his 
Microfcope than when he would examine an 
Objed : fo as to leave a right and exad fo¬ 
cal Dftance between it and the Lens of his 
Microfcope; and then looking through both, 
in the Manner of a Pelefcope, at the Steeple 
of a Church, which was two hundred ninety 
and nine Feet high, and feven hundred and 
fifty Feet from the Place where he flood, he 
could plainly fee, through every little Lens^ 
the whole Steeple, inverted, tho’ not larger 
than the Point of a fine Needle: and then 
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