Microscopical observations on fibres in meat
Date
15 January 1723
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Manuscript page number
p298
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height (page): 320mm
width (page): 200mm
width (page): 200mm
Subject
Description
From a letter by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society.
Fig. 1: membranes in fibres of meat (in this case beef).
Fig. 2: the membrane (M) with the branches of meat fibres that grow out of the membrane. The fibres are shown in cross sections.
The figures were engraved for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 31, no. 367 (1721). The printed images are depicted in reverse in comparison to these original drawings, which were stuck into the Letter Book.
The printed images can be found at EL/L4/60/008a.
Fig. 1: membranes in fibres of meat (in this case beef).
Fig. 2: the membrane (M) with the branches of meat fibres that grow out of the membrane. The fibres are shown in cross sections.
The figures were engraved for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 31, no. 367 (1721). The printed images are depicted in reverse in comparison to these original drawings, which were stuck into the Letter Book.
The printed images can be found at EL/L4/60/008a.
Object history
Figs 1-2 in A. Leeuwenhock, ‘Observations upon the membranes enclosing the fasciculi of fibres, into which a muscle is divided’, Phil. Trans. vol. 31, no. 367 (1721), pp. 129-34.
Related fellows
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
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