Sections of ebony and palm wood, micrscopic images
Date
12 January 1680
Creator
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p29
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 393mm
width (page): 245mm
width (page): 245mm
Subject
Description
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Robert Hooke.
From his letter Leeuwenhoek seems to assume that he has drawn the figures in red chalk himself.
Seven figures of sections of horizontal vessels in various trees, most enlarged through the microscope.
From his letter Leeuwenhoek seems to assume that he has drawn the figures in red chalk himself.
Seven figures of sections of horizontal vessels in various trees, most enlarged through the microscope.
Transcription
Elsen Hout
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
'Though not at all a great draughtsman, I have put the aspect of the wood to paper in red chalk to the best of my ability. I had a copy made in black chalk by another man, but when I tried to print it, I made the paper a little too wet and thus mostly spoiled it. Though the copy was very accurate, I yet send you enclosed my red-chalk drawing, because the little vessels figured' (Alle de brieven van Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, ed. by a committee of Dutch scientists, 17 vols [ongoing] (Amsterdam: Swets & Zeitlinger, 1939- ), III (1948), 144-87 (letter 54) (p. 165)).
Microscopic observation of several wood barks, in Antoni Leeuwenhoek, ‘Several woods and their vessels’, Phil. Trans. vol. 13, no. 148 (June 1683), pp. 197-208, refs to figures throughout.
The entire letter with all the images was also printed in Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Ontledingen en Ontdekkingen, van het Eyken, Olm, Boeken, Willegen, Elsen, Mauritius-Ebben, Palmen-hout, ende stroo. Van de Dierkens in de Hommen van Baars, Braassem, Voorn ende Zeelt (Leiden: Cornelis Boutesteyn, 1686), pp. 17-32.
Microscopic observation of several wood barks, in Antoni Leeuwenhoek, ‘Several woods and their vessels’, Phil. Trans. vol. 13, no. 148 (June 1683), pp. 197-208, refs to figures throughout.
The entire letter with all the images was also printed in Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Ontledingen en Ontdekkingen, van het Eyken, Olm, Boeken, Willegen, Elsen, Mauritius-Ebben, Palmen-hout, ende stroo. Van de Dierkens in de Hommen van Baars, Braassem, Voorn ende Zeelt (Leiden: Cornelis Boutesteyn, 1686), pp. 17-32.
Related fellows
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
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