Glass tube and blood vessles of a red cockcroach
Date
12 November 1680
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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Manuscript page number
p19
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 395mm
width (page): 245mm
width (page): 245mm
Subject
Description
Three images in a letter from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Robert Hooke.
Fig. 1: glass tube.
Fig. 2: veins/arteries of a cockroach from the East Indies. Van Leeuwenhoek observes that the veins and arteries are not two distinct systems, but rather branch out from the same arteries.
Fig. 7: arteries in a fly. In his observations the arteries are a 1000 times thinner than a hair from his beard.
Fig. 1: glass tube.
Fig. 2: veins/arteries of a cockroach from the East Indies. Van Leeuwenhoek observes that the veins and arteries are not two distinct systems, but rather branch out from the same arteries.
Fig. 7: arteries in a fly. In his observations the arteries are a 1000 times thinner than a hair from his beard.
Object history
Printed in Philosophical Collections, 3 (1681), pp. 51-58.
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Ondervindingen en Beschouwingen der onsigtbare geschapenen waarheden, vervat in verscheydenen Brieven (Leiden: Daniel van Gaesbeeck, 1684), pp. 1-32.
Also published in the Latin edition of Van Leeuwenhoek's letters: Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Arcana Naturae Detecta (Delft: Krooneveld, 1695).
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Ondervindingen en Beschouwingen der onsigtbare geschapenen waarheden, vervat in verscheydenen Brieven (Leiden: Daniel van Gaesbeeck, 1684), pp. 1-32.
Also published in the Latin edition of Van Leeuwenhoek's letters: Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Arcana Naturae Detecta (Delft: Krooneveld, 1695).
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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