Printed etching of flesh fibres
Date
3 March 1682
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p9
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 230mm
width (page): 189mm
width (page): 189mm
Subject
Description
Etching of six of the drawings included in this letter from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Robert Hooke.
Image comes from Philosophical Collections, 5 (1682), pp. 152-60.
Image comes from Philosophical Collections, 5 (1682), pp. 152-60.
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
Associated place