Rat sperm
Date
5 April 1680
Creator
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p4a
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 31mm
width (page): 88mm
width (page): 88mm
Subject
Description
In a letter by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Robert Hooke. A small piece of paper stuck on the page.
Fig. 1: this is the depiction of one 'little animal' as found in the fluid that came out of a testicle which Van Leeuwenhoek had taken from a living rat.
Fig. 1: this is the depiction of one 'little animal' as found in the fluid that came out of a testicle which Van Leeuwenhoek had taken from a living rat.
Object history
Printed in A. Leeuwenhoek, ‘Animalcules in a testicle of rat’, Phil. Trans. vol. 17, no. 196 (January 1693), pp. 593-94.
This letter with the images are also printed as Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Ontledingen en ontdekkingen, van de Testicul van een Rot, ende Dierkens in deselve; van de Mossel en Oester; Van levende Dierkens in het sap dat uit een Wyngaard-rank droop (Leiden: Cornelis Boutesteyn, 1686), pp. 33-40.
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Anatomia Seu interiora Rerum, Cum Animatarum tum Inanimatarum, Ope & beneficio [sic] exquisitissimorum Microscopiorum Detecta, variisque experimentis demonstrata [etc.] (Leiden: C. Boutesteyn, 1687), pp. 25-29.
This letter with the images are also printed as Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Ontledingen en ontdekkingen, van de Testicul van een Rot, ende Dierkens in deselve; van de Mossel en Oester; Van levende Dierkens in het sap dat uit een Wyngaard-rank droop (Leiden: Cornelis Boutesteyn, 1686), pp. 33-40.
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Anatomia Seu interiora Rerum, Cum Animatarum tum Inanimatarum, Ope & beneficio [sic] exquisitissimorum Microscopiorum Detecta, variisque experimentis demonstrata [etc.] (Leiden: C. Boutesteyn, 1687), pp. 25-29.
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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