Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15792

    Salt crystals

    Date
    21 June 1701
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p9
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 118mm
    width (page): 175mm
    Subject
    Description
    Three figures in a letter from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to John Chamberlayne.

    Figs 1-3: salt particles that Leeuwenhoek found in boiled rain water.
    Object history
    The Journal Book mentions on 9 July 1701, 'A Letter was read from Mr Leeuwenhoek to Dr. Sloane, concerning many Microscopical Observations about Glasses, &c' (JBO/10/224).

    The letter and images are published in:
    A. Leeuwenhoek, ‘Concerning the cause of the different tastes of waters and edge of razors’, Phil. Trans. vol. 22, no. 273 (August 1701), pp. 899-903.
    Related fellows
    Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
    John Chamberlayne (1661 - 1723, British) , Author
    Associated place
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