Egg and Photo Illustration (IMAGE)

Marine Biological Laboratory

Egg and Photo Illustration

Caption

Egg and sperm photo illustration. The sperm drawings are from an article by Antoine van Leeuwenhoek, who built the first microscope and discovered sperm, published in Philosophical Transactions 1678.

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René Pascal of Caesar, Bonn

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