Flesh fibres of a fish
Date
3 March 1682
Creator
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p7a
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 148mm
width (page): 186mm
width (page): 186mm
Subject
Description
In a letter by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Robert Hooke.
Fig. 3: a flesh fibre of an eel
Fig. 4: fibres in a cod fish, but on a different scale from the previous image.
Fig. 3: a flesh fibre of an eel
Fig. 4: fibres in a cod fish, but on a different scale from the previous image.
Transcription
from Alle de Brieven Vol. 3, p. 400: "and als ik de fig. 4 na sijn groote grlijk mij die meest doorgaens te vooren quamen hadde geteikent, soo soude deselve meer dan 16. mael dicker moet sijn geweest, en in soo een vis-striemtgens daer ik ick geen kringen sag, en die ik oordeelde dat wat stijf in lengte door mij gesigt lagen gestreckt, asl hier eenigsints tusschen KL.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
'I made a drawing of it as best as I could (for I cannot draw)' (Alle de brieven van Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, ed. by a committee of Dutch scientists, 17 vols [ongoing] (Amsterdam: Swets & Zeitlinger, 1939- ), III (1948), 382-415 (letter 67) (p. 395)).
A. Leeuwenhoeck, ‘Curious discoveries about internal texture of the flesh of muscles, of strange motions in fins, and the manner of production of shells of oysters’, Philosophical Collections, 5 (1682), pp. 152-60.
Journal de médecine (1683), 112-28. With four figures. (French translation of a copy of this letter, which was sent to Antoni Heinsius.)
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Ontledingen en ontdekkingen (Leiden: C. Boutesteyn, 1686), pp. 16-29. With six figures.
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. 43-53.
A. Leeuwenhoeck, ‘Curious discoveries about internal texture of the flesh of muscles, of strange motions in fins, and the manner of production of shells of oysters’, Philosophical Collections, 5 (1682), pp. 152-60.
Journal de médecine (1683), 112-28. With four figures. (French translation of a copy of this letter, which was sent to Antoni Heinsius.)
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Ontledingen en ontdekkingen (Leiden: C. Boutesteyn, 1686), pp. 16-29. With six figures.
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. 43-53.
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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