Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15765

    Observations of salt particles in pepper, tea and Spanish flies

    Date
    1 February 1692
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p14a
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 99mm
    width (page): 137mm
    Subject
    Description
    22 figures in a letter from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society. The original drawings are lost.

    Fig. 1: pepper through the magnifying glass
    Fig. 2: long pepper
    Figs 3-15: shapes of salt particles in various edibles, such as black and white pepper, tea
    Fig. 16-22: shapes of 'salt particles' in a Spanish fly.
    Object history
    Letter and images published in:
    Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Derde vervolg der brieven (Delft: H. van Kroonevelt, 1693), pp. 375-95.
    Antonio van Leeuwenhoek, Arcana naturae detecta (Delft: H. a Krooneveld, 1695), pp. 246-59. (Latin translation.)
    Related fellows
    Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
    Associated place
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