Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15764

    Observations of chalk of gout stones

    Date
    4 January 1692
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p12a
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 90mm
    width (page): 88mm
    Subject
    Description
    Four figures in a letter from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society. The original drawings are lost.

    Fig. 1: chalk-like substance as seen through the microscope
    Fig. 2: long, tapered salt particles
    Fig. 3: particles of caput mortuum
    Fig. 4: two salt figures.
    Object history
    Letter and figures published also as:

    Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Derde vervolg der brieven (Delft: H. van Kroonevelt, 1693), pp. 362-74.

    Antonio van Leeuwenhoek, Arcana naturae detecta (Delft: H. a Krooneveld, 1695), pp. 237-45. (Latin translation.)
    Related fellows
    Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
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