Observations on tendons and fleshy fibres
Date
20 November 1714
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p170
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height (page): 320mm
width (page): 200mm
width (page): 200mm
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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.
Fig. 1: detail of a muscle of the leg of a mouse, in which one can see the bigger tendons with the many fleshy fibres in between.
Fig. 2: fleshy fibres of muscles that come from just next to the spine.
Fig. 3: fibres at the end of a tendon.
Fig. 4: tendon and fibres from a honey bee.
Leeuwenhoek had the images drawn for him by an unknown artist.
Fig. 1: detail of a muscle of the leg of a mouse, in which one can see the bigger tendons with the many fleshy fibres in between.
Fig. 2: fleshy fibres of muscles that come from just next to the spine.
Fig. 3: fibres at the end of a tendon.
Fig. 4: tendon and fibres from a honey bee.
Leeuwenhoek had the images drawn for him by an unknown artist.
Object history
Letter and images printed in:
A. van Leeuwenhoek, Send-Brieven… (Delft: A. Beman, 1718), pp. 136-48 (in Dutch).
A. van Leeuwenhoek, Epistolae Physiologicae (Delft: A. Beman, 1719), pp. 135-47 (in Latin).
A. van Leeuwenhoek, Send-Brieven… (Delft: A. Beman, 1718), pp. 136-48 (in Dutch).
A. van Leeuwenhoek, Epistolae Physiologicae (Delft: A. Beman, 1719), pp. 135-47 (in Latin).
Related fellows
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
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