Exhalation vessles of leaves
Date
15 January 1723
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p302
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 320mm
width (page): 200mm
width (page): 200mm
Subject
Description
In a letter by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society. The letter is written in Latin, a language Leeuwenhoek did not have, so this letter must have been translated and written down by someone else.
This drawing was taken from the original letter in Early Letters L4, where the glue stains can still be found. The original letter now contains the printed version that was produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (EL/L4/62/007a). The printed figures carry the numbers 3 and 4 because they were part of a larger plate with images. However, the original letter had only two images, so there are no images missing. Both figures have the original numbering (1 and 2) crossed out and replaced by the numbering in Phil. Trans.
Fig. 1 (3): a small part of the skin of a peach observed through a microscope, showing the 'hair' that grows on it.
Fig. 2 (4): a similar piece of skin from a quince apple.
Leeuwenhoek had the images drawn for him by an unknown artist. The drawing was engraved for Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 31, no. 369 (1721).
This drawing was taken from the original letter in Early Letters L4, where the glue stains can still be found. The original letter now contains the printed version that was produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (EL/L4/62/007a). The printed figures carry the numbers 3 and 4 because they were part of a larger plate with images. However, the original letter had only two images, so there are no images missing. Both figures have the original numbering (1 and 2) crossed out and replaced by the numbering in Phil. Trans.
Fig. 1 (3): a small part of the skin of a peach observed through a microscope, showing the 'hair' that grows on it.
Fig. 2 (4): a similar piece of skin from a quince apple.
Leeuwenhoek had the images drawn for him by an unknown artist. The drawing was engraved for Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 31, no. 369 (1721).
Object history
Figure printed as Fig. 3 in A. Leeuwenhoek, 'De osculis, sive spiraculis foliorum buxi, item de lanugine malorum persicorum & cydoniorum', Phil. Trans. vol. 31, no. 369 (1721), pp. 231-34.
In a letter by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society. The letter is written in Latin, a language Leeuwenhoek did not have, so this letter must have been translated and written down by someone else.
This drawing was taken from the original letter in Early Letters L4, where the glue stains can still be found. The original letter now contains the printed version that was produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. The printed figures carry the numbers 3 and 4 because they were part of a larger plate with images. However, the original letter had only two images, so there are no images missing. Both figures have the original numbering (1 and 2) crossed out and replaced by the numbering in Phil. Trans.
Fig. 1 (3): a small part of the skin of a peach observed through a microscope, showing the 'hair' that grows on it.
Fig. 2 (4): a similar piece of skin from a quince apple.
Leeuwenhoek had the images drawn for him by an unknown artist. The drawing was engraved for Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 31, no. 369 (1721).
In a letter by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society. The letter is written in Latin, a language Leeuwenhoek did not have, so this letter must have been translated and written down by someone else.
This drawing was taken from the original letter in Early Letters L4, where the glue stains can still be found. The original letter now contains the printed version that was produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. The printed figures carry the numbers 3 and 4 because they were part of a larger plate with images. However, the original letter had only two images, so there are no images missing. Both figures have the original numbering (1 and 2) crossed out and replaced by the numbering in Phil. Trans.
Fig. 1 (3): a small part of the skin of a peach observed through a microscope, showing the 'hair' that grows on it.
Fig. 2 (4): a similar piece of skin from a quince apple.
Leeuwenhoek had the images drawn for him by an unknown artist. The drawing was engraved for Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 31, no. 369 (1721).
Related fellows
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
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