Proteus Richard III in the play "Henry VI, Part Three", in which the future usurper boasts: Shakespeare also names one of the main characters of his play "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" Proteus. Inconsistent with his affections, his deceptions have unraveled at the finale of the play as he is brought face-to-face with his friend Valentine and original love Julia: In 1807, William Wordsworth finished his sonnet on the theme of a modernity deadened to Nature, which opens "The world is too much with us", with a sense of nostalgia for the lost richness of a world numinous with deities: In
Amoeba proteus amoeboid protozoa various names: Carl Linnaeus termed Rösel's organism "Chaos protheus" in 1758. Otto Friedrich Müller referred to it as "Proteus diffluens" in 1786. In 1878, Joseph Leidy proposed the current name "Amoeba proteus" to describe Rösel's "Proteus", "Proteus diffluens", and another described amoeba "Amoeba princeps". Amoeba proteus Amoeba proteus (core of Amoeba), alternatively Chaos diffluens, is an amoeba closely related to the giant amoebae and a species commonly bought at science supply stores. This small protozoan uses tentacular protuberances called pseudopodia to move and phagocytose smaller unicellular organisms,(which may be greater in size than of amoeba), which are enveloped