![]() ![]() ![]() Mr Wenham has sought cilia in vain, and attributes the supposition of their existence to an optical illusion. I identified both Ehrenberg and Wenham in the same text, Wenham apparently did claim ciliac propulsion was an optical illusion: It was I who resolved the singular problem of rotation in the cells and hairs of plants into ciliary attraction, in spite of the assertions of Wenham and others that my explanation was the result of an optical illusion. ![]() It was I who destroyed Ehrenberg's theory that the Volvox globator was an animal, and proved that his "monads" with stomachs and eyes were merely phases of the formation of a vegetable cell, and were, when they reached their mature state, incapable of the act of conjugation, or any true generative act, without which no organism rising to any stage of life higher than vegetable can be said to be complete. On a related note, I was also curious about Linley's alleged discoveries using the microscope: >7 AndreasJ: Leeuwenhoek didn't invent anything like the super-lens in life. ![]()
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