divining-glass

Updated: August 26, 2026

Here also is the tomb of Peter Heyn, who from a simple fisherman rose to be a great admiral, and took that memorable netful of Spanish ships that had under their hatches more than eleven million florins; also the tomb of Leeuwenhoek, the father of the science of the infinitely small who, with the "divining-glass," as Parini says, "saw primitive man swimming in the genital wave."

Edmondo De Amicis - Holland, v. 1 (of 2)