Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15759

    Observations on crystals and crystalline forms in various stones

    Date
    3 August 1688
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p27a
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 85mm
    width (page): 125mm
    Subject
    Description
    14 figures in a letter from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society. The original drawings are lost.

    Observations of plaster, alabaster, plaster stone from France, gypsum, Muscovite glass, cobblestone, shell lime, masonry mortar, lime, cement, sand stone, slate and the formation of salt crystals obtained by various experiments.
    Object history
    The letter with images is also printed in:
    Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Natuurs verborgentheden ontdekt, zijnde een tweede vervolg der brieven (Delft: A. Voorstad, 1689), pp. 204-36.

    Antonio van Leeuwenhoek, Arcana naturae detecta (Delft: H. a Krooneveld, 1695), pp. 123-46.
    Related fellows
    Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
    Associated place
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