Five figures of the womb, foetus, and ovaries of a sheep
Date
13 June 1722
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p269
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 180mm
width (page): 220mm
width (page): 220mm
Subject
Description
Five figures included in a letter from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society. The original letter is kept in Early Letter L4 (EL/L4/79) with the printed images. The originals are here in LBO.
Fig. 1: foetus of sheep in its membranes
Fig. 2: the tuba fallophiana
Fig. 3: ovarium, with round bodies on the outside
Fig. 4: one of those bodies, thought to be an egg
Fig. 5: one of these eggs found in the uterus of the sheep.
Leeuwenhoek had the images drawn by an unknown artist. The drawings were engraved by John Sturt for Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 32, no. 373 (1723).
Fig. 1: foetus of sheep in its membranes
Fig. 2: the tuba fallophiana
Fig. 3: ovarium, with round bodies on the outside
Fig. 4: one of those bodies, thought to be an egg
Fig. 5: one of these eggs found in the uterus of the sheep.
Leeuwenhoek had the images drawn by an unknown artist. The drawings were engraved by John Sturt for Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 32, no. 373 (1723).
Object history
Figures printed in Mr. Leeuwenhoek, 'Observations upon a fœtus, and the parts of generation of a sheep', Phil. Trans. vol. 32, no. 373 (1723), pp. 151-56.
Related fellows
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
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