Mar 1, 2021
“In 1874, a naturalist by the name of Joseph Leidy took out his microscope and examined some water from a local Pennsylvania spring. On the other side of his lenses, he found a creature that looked a bit like this one. Leidy documented the creature in his microscopy magnum opus "Fresh-water Rhizopods of North America," which includes beautiful images produced through chromolithography, an early method of color printing, based on what he'd seen. And just like you might, he had some assumptions about what he thought this thing was.”
Journey to the Microcosmos- The Case of the Mistaken Amoeba
Images Originally Captured by Jam’s Germs