Crystallisations of several liquids
Date
11 February 1675
Creator
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p21
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 304mm
width (page): 203mm
width (page): 203mm
Description
In a letter from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Henry Oldenburg.
A series of observations with regard to the crystallisation of salts and infusions, observed with a microscope:
- sal tardus benedictii
- sal tartari vitriolati
- salt of absinth
- salt of a stone
- thorax
- the spirit of salt
- sublimated mercurius
- salt of ammoniac
- salt of rosemary
- salt of the carnation flower
- salt of vinegar
- salt of elderflower
- salt of paritory
- salt of anis
- salt of black hellebore.
A series of observations with regard to the crystallisation of salts and infusions, observed with a microscope:
- sal tardus benedictii
- sal tartari vitriolati
- salt of absinth
- salt of a stone
- thorax
- the spirit of salt
- sublimated mercurius
- salt of ammoniac
- salt of rosemary
- salt of the carnation flower
- salt of vinegar
- salt of elderflower
- salt of paritory
- salt of anis
- salt of black hellebore.
Object history
Alle de brieven van Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, ed. by a committee of Dutch scientists, 17 vols [ongoing] (Amsterdam: Swets & Zeitlinger, 1939- ), I, 230-75 (letter 16). According to the commentary, this letter is accompanied by two pages of figures of crystals drawn in ink by Leeuwenhoeck. The figure of the crystals of alum is not mentioned in the letter. A number of other drawings mentioned in this letter but not accompanying it were forwarded by Leeuwenhoeck to the Royal Society together with the ‘Missive’ of 26 March 1675.
There is an autograph copy of this letter in the British Library, London (Add. MS 22953, ff. 122-25). It is kept together with a drawing in red chalk of a dried section of an optic nerve, which belongs to the letter of 4 December 1674.
There is an autograph copy of this letter in the British Library, London (Add. MS 22953, ff. 122-25). It is kept together with a drawing in red chalk of a dried section of an optic nerve, which belongs to the letter of 4 December 1674.
Related fellows
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent