From Lilliput To Brobdingnag

From Lilliput to BrobdingnagWhen the Microscope was Invented at the beginning of the 17th Century, it revealed an entire new order of creation to mankind. Below the range of the visible was an unsuspected universe of living creatures, dwindling down, down, down to unimaginable minuteness. This discovery, coming at the same time as the telescope's revelations at the opposite end of the scale, set men thinking about the question of size.One of the earliest -- and certainly the most famous -- resul...