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01874aam a2200277 i 4500 001 406C6278EAB411EB95DB475F3FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210722010305 008 190411s2019 wau 000 f eng d 010 $a 2019931450 020 $a 1619761610 020 $a 9781619761612 040 $d SKYRV $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Tolmie, Sarah, $e author. 245 14 $a The little animals / $c by Sarah Tolmie. 264 1 $a Seattle, WA : $b Aqueduct Press, $c 2019. 300 $a 377 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek, a quiet linen draper in Delft, has discovered a new world: the world of the little animals, or animalcules, that he sees through his simple microscopes. These tiny creatures are everywhere, even inside us. But who will believe him? Not his wife, not his neighbors, not his fellow merchants -- only his friend Reinier De Graaf, a medical doctor. Then he meets an itinerant goose girl at the market who lives surrounded by tiny, invisible voices. Are these the animalcules also? Leeuwenhoek and the girl form a curious alliance, and gradually the lives of the little animals infiltrate everything around them: Leeuwenhoek's cloth business, the art of his friend Johannes Vermeer, the nascent sex trade, and people's religious certainties. But Leeuwenhoek also needs to cement his reputation as a natural philosopher, and for that he needs the Royal Society of London -- a daunting challenge, indeed, for a Dutch draper who can't communicate in Latin." -- back cover. 650 0 $a Science, Medieval $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Microorganisms $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Science fiction. 650 0 $a Historical fiction. 651 0 $a Netherlands $x Social life and customs $y 17th century $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722061844.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=406C6278EAB411EB95DB475F3FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search