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Daguerre, Donné et Foucault, trois francs-tireurs créent la microphotographie / Gabriel Richet.

Oscillations et stabilité selon Foucault : critique historique et expérimentale / par Paul Acloque ; préface de Pierre Costabel.

The life and science of Léon Foucault : the man who proved the earth rotates / William Tobin.

Cours de microscopie complémentaire des études médicales ... / par Al. Donné.

Blood corpuscles of a frog. Photomicrograph by Léon Foucault, 1844.

Spermatozoa of a frog. Photomicrograph by Léon Foucault, 1844.

Human milk. Photomicrograph by Léon Foucault, 1844.

Rouleaux of blood corpuscles. Photomicrograph by Léon Foucault, 1844.

Uric acid crystals. Photomicrograph by Léon Foucault, 1844.

Spermatozoa of a mouse. Photomicrograph by Léon Foucault, 1844.

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Uric acid crystals. Photomicrograph by Léon Foucault, 1844.

Spermatozoa of a frog. Photomicrograph by Léon Foucault, 1844.

Spermatozoa of a mouse. Photomicrograph by Léon Foucault, 1844.

Rouleaux of blood corpuscles. Photomicrograph by Léon Foucault, 1844.

Cours de microscopie complémentaire des études médicales ... / par Al. Donné.