Microbe Hunters
Contributors: F. Gonzalez-Crussi (Introduction)
Publisher: Harvest Books
Published: October 28, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780156027779
First sentence: Two hundred and fifty years ago an obscure man named Leeuwenhoek looked for the first time into a mysterious new world peopled with a thousand different kinds of tiny beings, some ferocious and deadly, others friendly and useful, many of them more important to mankind than any continent or archipelago.