Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15749

    Examination of the germ of wheat

    Date
    13 June 1687
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p17a
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 173mm
    width (page): 142mm
    Subject
    Description
    Printed engraving with three figures. In a letter from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society.

    Fig. 1: beginning of entire wheat plant
    Fig. 2: other wheat plant with first leaves
    Fig. 3: two leaves, separated.
    Object history
    Printed images taken from a published version of the letter (the same plate is in the Dutch and Latin versions):
    Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Vervolg der Brieven, geschreven aan de Wytvermaarde Koninglijke Societeit tot Londen (Leiden: C. Boutesteijn, 1687), pp. 27-52.

    Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Continuatio Epistolarum (Leiden: Boutesteyn, 1689), pp. 21-40.
    Related fellows
    Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
    Associated place
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