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Under victorian microscopes, an enchanted world

12 mins | Mar 7, 2018

They saw miniature fairies inside of everything. Olivia Campbell, writing in JSTOR Daily, looks at the Victorian obsession with the magic of microbiology and how it affected our appreciation of science.

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