Physiology of an ash tree, seeds and leaves
Date
13 July 1685
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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Manuscript page number
p15
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 390mm
width (page): 240mm
width (page): 240mm
Subject
Description
Six images in a letter by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Fellows of the Royal Society.
Fig. 1 (the large full page drawing): leaf of an ash tree.
From the top left downwards:
Fig. 2: the leaves Van Leeuwenhoek found inside a seed
Fig. 3: top side of leaves coming out of a cherry pip
Fig. 5: top side of leaves coming out of an almond
Fig. 7: the inside of a hazelnut
Fig. 8: top side of leaves coming out of an apple pip.
Originally there were 19 images belonging to this letter. They were published in the Dutch and Latin editions of his letters.
Fig. 1 (the large full page drawing): leaf of an ash tree.
From the top left downwards:
Fig. 2: the leaves Van Leeuwenhoek found inside a seed
Fig. 3: top side of leaves coming out of a cherry pip
Fig. 5: top side of leaves coming out of an almond
Fig. 7: the inside of a hazelnut
Fig. 8: top side of leaves coming out of an apple pip.
Originally there were 19 images belonging to this letter. They were published in the Dutch and Latin editions of his letters.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 3 November 1685, ‘A letter of Mr. Leewenhoeck, dated July 13, 1685, was read, shewing, that as in the seeds of plants and trees the young plant or tree is contained with all its parts, as leaves, vessels, body, root; so in all animal productions the animalcule contains the figure of the animal; it seeming consonant to nature, that the seed of the body of the thing be contained in a very little room’ (Birch 4:426).
A. Leeuwenhoek, ‘Concerning seeds of plants, with observations on the manner of the propagation of the plants and animals’, Phil. Trans. vol. 17, no. 199 (April 1693), pp. 700-08. With 13 images.
A. van Leeuwenhoek, Ontledingen en Ontdekkingen van het Begin der Planten in de Zaden van Boomen (C. Boutesteyn. Leyden, 1685), pp. 3-32. With 19 images.
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. 58-81. With 19 images.
A. Leeuwenhoek, ‘Concerning seeds of plants, with observations on the manner of the propagation of the plants and animals’, Phil. Trans. vol. 17, no. 199 (April 1693), pp. 700-08. With 13 images.
A. van Leeuwenhoek, Ontledingen en Ontdekkingen van het Begin der Planten in de Zaden van Boomen (C. Boutesteyn. Leyden, 1685), pp. 3-32. With 19 images.
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. 58-81. With 19 images.
Related fellows
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
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