- Boy and girl feeding the horses
Boy and girl feeding the horses - Horse and chickens
Horse and chickens - Two horses looking at their food
Two horses looking at their food - Two horses
Two horses - Two children riding ponies on the beach
Two children riding ponies on the beach - Two dogs and a horse
Two dogs and a horse - Dog chasing a rabbit
Dog chasing a rabbit - Dog and Shoe
Dog and Shoe - Horse and Dog
`Horse and Dog - Birds waiting for feeding time
Birds waiting for feeding time - Feeding time
Feeding time - Trotting across a field
Trotting across a field - Going through the gate
Going through the gate - Man and horse outside a house
Man and horse outside a house - Man leading a horse
Man leading a horse - Long-nosed sheep looking through the hedge
Long-nosed sheep looking through the hedge - Mother hen with her chicks
Mother hen with her chicks - Man riding horse
Man riding horse - Donkey
Donkey - Lioness
Lioness - Lioness
Lioness - Male Lion
Male Lion - Of the Eyes and Head of a Grey drone-Fly
I took a large grey Drone-Fly, that had a large head, but a small and slender body in proportion to it, and cutting off its head, I fix'd it with the forepart or face upwards upon my Object Plate (this I made choice of rather then the head of a great blue Fly, because my enquiry being now about the eyes, I found this Fly to have, first the biggest clusters of eyes in proportion to his head, of any small kind of Fly that I have yet seen, it being somewhat inclining towards the make of the large Dragon-Flies. Next, because there is a greater variety in the knobs or balls of each cluster, then is of any small Fly.) Then examining it according to my usual manner, by varying the degrees of light, and altering its position to each kinde of light, I drew that representation of it which is delineated in the 24. Scheme, and found these things to be as plain and evident, as notable and pleasant. - Flea
The strength and beauty of this small creature, had it no other relation at all to man, would deserve a description. For its strength, the Microscope is able to make no greater discoveries of it then the naked eye, but onely the curious contrivance of its leggs and joints, for the exerting that strength, is very plainly manifested, such as no other creature, I have yet observ'd, has any thing like it; for the joints of it are so adapted, that he can, as 'twere, fold them short one within another, and suddenly stretch, or spring them out to their whole length, that is, of the fore-leggs, the part A, of the Scheme, lies within B, and B within C, parallel to, or side by side each other; but the parts of the two next, lie quite contrary, that is, D without E, and E without F, but parallel also; but the parts of the hinder leggs, G, H and I, bend one within another, like the parts of a double jointed Ruler, or like the foot, legg and thigh of a man; these six leggs he clitches up altogether, and when he leaps, springs them all out, and thereby exerts his whole strength at once.