Observations of a fly's wing
Date
24 June 1692
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p17
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 175mm
width (page): 205mm
width (page): 205mm
Subject
Description
Printed image with four figures. Original images no longer exist.
Letter from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society.
Fig. 1: a large blood vessel lying on a bony part
Fig. 2: a tiny fly, the size it appears to the naked eye
Fig. 3: the little wing, the size the draftsman saw it through the magnifying glass
Fig. 4: one of the two antennae of the tiny fly.
Letter from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society.
Fig. 1: a large blood vessel lying on a bony part
Fig. 2: a tiny fly, the size it appears to the naked eye
Fig. 3: the little wing, the size the draftsman saw it through the magnifying glass
Fig. 4: one of the two antennae of the tiny fly.
Object history
Letter and images published in:
A. van Leeuwenhoek, Derde Vervolg der Brieven (Delft: H. van Kroonevelt, 1693), pp. 454-74.
A. van Leeuwenhoek, Arcana Naturae Detecta (Delft: H. a Krooneveld, 1695), pp. 298-311.
A. van Leeuwenhoek, Derde Vervolg der Brieven (Delft: H. van Kroonevelt, 1693), pp. 454-74.
A. van Leeuwenhoek, Arcana Naturae Detecta (Delft: H. a Krooneveld, 1695), pp. 298-311.
Related fellows
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
Associated place