Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 53 — page 84: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION shilling—not much in the way of enlargement. But Leeuwen- hoek’s microscopes, though frightfully crude compared withcurrent models, magnified hundreds of times. Until he ' devised his instrument it was thought that the smallest creature God had made was the cheese-mite. Leeuwenhoek changed all this when he demonstrated the existence of bacteria. Incidentally, he was also the first man ever.to see capillary blood vessels. So we could go on, tracing the diverging paths of the instruments that have been developed from the lens—in- struments that have played an incalculably vital part in the gathering impetus of scientific progress. Think of them: camera, binoculars, theodolite, sextant, ophthalmoscope, spectroscope, polarimeter, cinema projector, planetarium ‘projector, range-finder, and so on, and so on, and so on! With- out these things there would be no photography, prifted il- lustrations, surveying, naviga- tion, spectrum analysis, movie films, etc. The lens is such a simple thing in essence—just a bit of curved glass—that few people realise how different the world would be without it. THE LESSER BREED is the title of next month’s thoughtful but fast moving lead story by Dan Morgan. It is supported by a brand new William F. Temple story, Man ina Maze; another E. C. Tubb gem, Nonentity; and a soul-shuddering piece by Eric Wilding, Death Wish. There will be more articles and features and, of course, another fully-illustrated supplement. AUTHENTIC-A MONTHLY MUST comicloooks.con