TO THE READER.

...[accuracy] and say without any hesitation, having spent many years in the investigation original: onderſoeckingh of the nature and the structure of small and large animals; in whose excessively skillful and embroidered internal organs I find the wonders of God to be beyond naming; and in some measure even greater in the small than in the largest creatures. Unless one wishes to observe that every minor part of the large animals contains as many incomprehensible beauties and wonders as the entire bodies of the smallest little creatures original: beeskens. A diminutive term used by Swammerdam to express both the smallness and his affection for these subjects..

    Who would believe that in a loathsome Louse, one can display the pulmonary vessels original: longh-aderen. Swammerdam was among the first to observe the tracheal system in insects—the tubes they use to breathe—though he used familiar cardiovascular terms to describe them. and their rings, the stomach, the intestines, the womb original: lijfmoeder with its divisions, the eggs, and so forth: while its head, its eyes, its horns Likely referring to the antennae., its sting, its chest, its belly, its legs, its nails, its hair, the wrinkles of its skin, the joints of its limbs, the eight openings of its lungs The spiracles, or breathing holes, found along the sides of an insect's body., and the exits of its internal organs amount to nothing more than a small grain of sand?

    Who must not stand amazed when he hears this? And who is so irrational that he would not also worship God, the Creator original: Maacker of these wonders, even in this tiny little animal? As for me, I am astonished when I recall having seen this. And that