Salt crystals in bezoar stone, dead coal, a pedro porco stone and coral
Date
6 July 1688
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p15a
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 59mm
width (page): 72mm
width (page): 72mm
Subject
Description
Five figures in a letter from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society. The original drawings are lost.
Fig. A: salt in oil in which bezoar stone was rubbed
Fig. B: salt in water in which bezoar stone had stood for a few hours
Fig. D: crushed caput mortuum, or dead coal
Fig. E: salt crystals from a pedro porco stone (a bezoar stone from a porcupine)
Fig. F: salt from coral.
Fig. A: salt in oil in which bezoar stone was rubbed
Fig. B: salt in water in which bezoar stone had stood for a few hours
Fig. D: crushed caput mortuum, or dead coal
Fig. E: salt crystals from a pedro porco stone (a bezoar stone from a porcupine)
Fig. F: salt from coral.
Object history
The letter with engraving is also printed in:
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Natuurs verborgentheden ontdekt, zijnde een tweede vervolg der brieven (Delft: A. Voorstad, 1689), pp. 186-203.
Antonio van Leeuwenhoek, Arcana naturae detecta (Delft: H. a Krooneveld, 1695), pp. 109-21.
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Natuurs verborgentheden ontdekt, zijnde een tweede vervolg der brieven (Delft: A. Voorstad, 1689), pp. 186-203.
Antonio van Leeuwenhoek, Arcana naturae detecta (Delft: H. a Krooneveld, 1695), pp. 109-21.
Related fellows
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
Associated place