Old Scientific Drawings

BibliOdyssey has a post containing beautiful old scientific drawings by Christian Gottfried Ehrenber. Pretty little tiny life forms.

It’s fun to think about the early days of the microscope. It must have been a bit of a shock to look through the microscope and see little creatures. I mean, I still find it freaky to look at little protozoa and stuff under a microscope, and I already know they’re there.