The universe, or, The infinitely great and the infinitely little / by F.A. Pouchet.

  • Félix Archimède Pouchet
Date:
1871
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Credit: The universe, or, The infinitely great and the infinitely little / by F.A. Pouchet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LIST OF THE ENGEAVINGS. COLOUEED PLATES. Page HuMMiNG-BiRDS AMONG TROPICAL Flowers, . . . (frontispiece) Metamorphoses of the Peacock Butterfly—Vanessa io. . . . 137 Orchidaceous Flowers, . . . . . . . . . .514 The Great Water-lily—]7c?o?'w/e^ia, frequented by Humming-birds, 535 ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD. No. of Fig. 1. Pau-Kou-Ché, the Creator.—From a Cliinese painting, 2. Tlior, the Creator of the Scandinavians, reconstructing the Globe, 3. Investigator of the Infinitely Little.—Achromatic Microscope, . ' 4. Binocular Microscope, 5. Various Infusoria, ......... 6. Successive forms assumed by the Proteus, .... 7. Wagener's Lieberkuhnia—Lieberluhnia Wageneri, 8. Infusoria found at the bottom of the Sea, seen with the Microscope, 9. Medusa cainpanularia, ........ 10. The Hydrostatic Physophora—Physophora muzonema, 11. The Miliary Noctiluca, highly magnified—Noctiluca miliaria, . 12. 'Reà Tv\Q\\oàçsm\a. {Trichodesmia rubra), .... 13. Infusoria and Living Diatomacete from the Strata under Berlin, 14. Trichiniie gnawing a muscle, magnified, .... 15. Female Trichina depositing her young, magnified, 16. Infusoria in Tripoli, from Richmond, N. America, 17. Skeletons of Silicious Infusoria, as seen under the Microscope, . 18. Microscopic view of Infusoria in Mountain-meal of Ebsdorf, 19. Magnified Miliola with its Capillary Appendages projected, 20. 1, Rock of the Arabian Chain formed by Agglomei'ated Numnudites used for building the Pyramids of Egj'pt ; 2, 3, Interior view of Nummulites ; 4, Numniulites of which the Sphinx is exclusively composed (Lybian Chain) 21. View of the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid of Egypt, 22. Gigantic Tridacua, used in the Moluccas as a Bathing-tub, 23. Fossil Ammonites, 24. Monstrous Polypus met with by the Aleeton, 4 6 10 11 14 14 15 18 20 21 22 23 24 27 28 30 31 33 36 39 41 42 43