Construction of an air pump and observations on a grain of wheat
Date
22 April 1692
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p13
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 198mm
width (page): 180mm
width (page): 180mm
Subject
Description
Letter from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Richard Waller.
Fig. 1: a prepared glass tube
Fig. 2: copper wire with silk thread wrapped around the notches at one end
Fig. 3: a little part of outermost bark or membrane of grain of wheat
Fig. 4: a second little bit of bark or membrane.
Fig. 1: a prepared glass tube
Fig. 2: copper wire with silk thread wrapped around the notches at one end
Fig. 3: a little part of outermost bark or membrane of grain of wheat
Fig. 4: a second little bit of bark or membrane.
Object history
Letter and images were published in:
A. van Leeuwenhoek, Derde Vervolg der Brieven (Delft: H. van Kroonevelt, 1693), pp. 434-53.
A. van Leeuwenhoek, Arcana Naturae Detecta (Delft: H. a Krooneveld, 1695), pp. 285-97.
In relation to the original drawing, figs 3 and 4 have changed placed in the engraving in Leeuwenhoek's publications.
A. van Leeuwenhoek, Derde Vervolg der Brieven (Delft: H. van Kroonevelt, 1693), pp. 434-53.
A. van Leeuwenhoek, Arcana Naturae Detecta (Delft: H. a Krooneveld, 1695), pp. 285-97.
In relation to the original drawing, figs 3 and 4 have changed placed in the engraving in Leeuwenhoek's publications.
Related fellows
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
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