Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18686

    Bark

    Date
    1676
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    The Royal Society, Publisher
    Object type
    Article identifier
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (page): 213mm
    width (page): 150mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Natural history
    Physics
       > Optics
          > Microscopy
    Description
    Four microscopic views from issue 127 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, as observed by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek.

    Figure 1. Pores or lenticels of a small twig.
    Figure 2. Vessels visible in the layer just inside of the twig.
    Figure 3. Bark of the twig.
    Figure 4. Small living creatures, ‘shaped like little Eels’, as observed in wine.

    Illustrations to ‘Extract of a letter written to the publisher by Mr. Leewenhoeck from Delft, April 21 1676; concerning the texture of trees and some remarkable discovery in wine; together with some notes thereon’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 11, issue 127 (18 July 1676).
    Related fellows
    Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Microscopist
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > Netherlands
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
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