Animal fat particles under the microscope
Date
6 July 1674
Creator
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
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Manuscript page number
p4
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Dimensions
height (page): 320mm
width (page): 213mm
width (page): 213mm
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Description
Figure in a letter from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Henry Oldenburg.
Van Leeuwenhoek is explaining how he has seen how fat particles in animal fat stick together, and that if you have two globules, the third one will attach in-between.
Van Leeuwenhoek is explaining how he has seen how fat particles in animal fat stick together, and that if you have two globules, the third one will attach in-between.
Object history
Printed in 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. 121-31 (p. 123, woodcut figures of glass pipes for observing liquids, figs 1-5).
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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