Experiment with glass pipe on white matter in brain
Date
1 June 1674
Creator
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
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p4
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 318mm
width (page): 208mm
width (page): 208mm
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Description
Figure in letter from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Henry Oldenburg.
Van Leeuwenhoek is investigating the white matter in animal brains. By taking a hollow glass pipe and sticking it in the white matter of an animal brain, he is able to suck some material into the glass pipe and subsequently investigate it with a microscope.
Van Leeuwenhoek is investigating the white matter in animal brains. By taking a hollow glass pipe and sticking it in the white matter of an animal brain, he is able to suck some material into the glass pipe and subsequently investigate it with a microscope.
Object history
A. Leeuwenhoek, 'Microscopical observations from Leeuwenhoeck, concerning blood, milk, bones, the brain, spitle, and cuticula, &c.', Phil. Trans. vol. 9, no. 106 (September 1674), pp. 121-28. With six figures, the last two going with the letter of 6 July 1674, printed in the same issue at pp. 128-31. (Part of the letter in English.)
Related fellows
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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