The egg of a caterpillar
Date
7 March 1692
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p23a
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 93mm
width (page): 75mm
width (page): 75mm
Subject
Description
Small, printed image with one figure (fig. 14) attached to letter from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, dated at Delft, to the Royal Society.
Fig. 14: shell of an egg no bigger than a grain of sand.
This figure is taken from a sheet with 15 figures belonging to this letter as published by Leeuwenhoek himself in 1693. The publication in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society is missing this particular figure.
Fig. 14: shell of an egg no bigger than a grain of sand.
This figure is taken from a sheet with 15 figures belonging to this letter as published by Leeuwenhoek himself in 1693. The publication in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society is missing this particular figure.
Object history
The letter was published with 15 figures by Van Leeuwenhoek, and with 14 in the Philosophical Transactions:
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Derde vervolg der brieven (Delft: H. van Kroonevelt, 1693), pp. 396-429.
Antonio van Leeuwenhoek, Arcana naturae detecta (Delft: H. a Krooneveld, 1695), pp. 260-81. (Latin translation.)
Phil. Trans. vol. 18, no. 213 (1694), pp. 194-200. (English excerpt.)
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Derde vervolg der brieven (Delft: H. van Kroonevelt, 1693), pp. 396-429.
Antonio van Leeuwenhoek, Arcana naturae detecta (Delft: H. a Krooneveld, 1695), pp. 260-81. (Latin translation.)
Phil. Trans. vol. 18, no. 213 (1694), pp. 194-200. (English excerpt.)
Related fellows
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
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