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What was impossible as per the Dutchmen? the microscope poem

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Answered by samantikaviid
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Anton Leeuwenhoek was Dutch.

He sold pincushions, cloth, and such.

The waiting townsfolk fumed and fussed

As Anton’s dry goods gathered dust.

He worked, instead of tending store,

At grinding special lenses for

A microscope. Some of the things

He looked at were: mosquitoes’ wings,

the hairs of sheep, the legs of lice,

the skin of people, dogs, and mice;

ox eyes, spiders’ spinning gear,

fishes’ scales, a little smear

of his own blood, and best of all,

the unknown, busy, very small

bugs that swim and bump and hop

inside a simple water drop.

Impossible! Most Dutchmen said.

This Anton’s crazy in the head!

We ought to ship him off to Spain!

He says he’s seen a housefly’s brain!

He says the water that we drink

Is full of bugs! He’s mad, we think!

They called him dumkopf, which means dope.

That’s how we got the microscope.

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