Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15784

    Blood circulation in tadpoles

    Date
    25 September 1699
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p17
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 200mm
    width (page): 150mm
    Subject
    Description
    Five figures drawn on a separate sheet of paper, in a letter from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society.

    Fig. 1: blood vessel in a tadpole, just wider than a blood particle
    Fig. 2: a bigger blood vessel
    Fig. 3: an artery
    Fig. 4: an unusual blood vessel or artery
    Fig. 5: the tadpole.
    Object history
    Mentioned in the Journal Book, 29 November 1699, 'A letter from Mr Leuwenhoeck to Dr Sloane concerning the circulation of the blood' (JBO/10/152).

    The letter and images are printed in:
    A. Leeuwenhoek, 'Part of a letter from Mr. Lewenhoek, concerning the circulation and globules of the blood in butts', Phil. Trans. vol. 22, no. 263 (May 1701), pp. 552-60.

    A. van Leeuwenhoek, Sevende vervolg der brieven (Delft: H. van Krooneveld, 1702), pp. 113-26.

    A. à Leeuwenhoek, Epistolae ad Societatem Regiam Anglicam (Leiden: J. A. Langerak, 1719), pp. 107-20.
    Related fellows
    Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
    Associated place
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