Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15744

    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
    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.
    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.
    Related fellows
    Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
    Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
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