File:Hartsoeker 1740 sperm woodcut.jpg
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Hartsoeker woodcut published in about 1740 – 1750.
Professor Lord Robert Winston: "It shows a little sperm, a human sperm with of course a little a man, the homunculus in the head of the sperm. When they were looking down the van Leeuwenhoek microscope with its imperfect optics they thought they could see in the nucleus a little person. And this gave rise to this rather fanciful drawing because of the imperfect optics. It might interest you to know that apparently in Paris, Brussels and parts of London it was quite fashionable that after a good alcoholic dinner party to get out the microscope and examine drops of the seminal fluid of the assembled guests as a kind of sport after dinner."
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