"I have divers times examined the same matter……" — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

I have divers times examined the same matter (human semen) from a… - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

"I have divers times examined the same matter (human semen) from a healthy man... not from a sick man... nor spoiled by keeping... for a long time and not liquefied after the lapse of some time... but immediately after ejaculation before six beats of the pulse had intervened; and I have seen so great a number of living animalcules... in it, that sometimes more than a thousand were moving about in an amount of material the size of a grain of sand... I saw this vast number of animalcules not all through the semen, but only in the liquid matter adhering to the thicker part."

— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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