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
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.
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.
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