Examination of an egg of a silkworm
Date
11 July 1687
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p7a
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 80mm
width (page): 114mm
width (page): 114mm
Subject
Description
Two figures in a letter from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society.
Fig. 1: blackish vessels (as well as the draftsman could perceive them, Leeuwenhoek says) that lie on one side of the head of an unborn silkworm.
Fig. 2: cut-through shell of a silkworm egg.
Fig. 1: blackish vessels (as well as the draftsman could perceive them, Leeuwenhoek says) that lie on one side of the head of an unborn silkworm.
Fig. 2: cut-through shell of a silkworm egg.
Object history
Printed images taken from a published version of the letter (the same plate is in the Dutch and Latin versions):
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Vervolg der Brieven, geschreven aan de Wytvermaarde Koninglijke Societeit tot Londen (Leiden: C. Boutesteijn, 1687), pp. 53-72.
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Continuatio Epistolarum (Leiden: Boutesteyn, 1689), pp. 41-55.
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Vervolg der Brieven, geschreven aan de Wytvermaarde Koninglijke Societeit tot Londen (Leiden: C. Boutesteijn, 1687), pp. 53-72.
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Continuatio Epistolarum (Leiden: Boutesteyn, 1689), pp. 41-55.
Related fellows
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
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