Observations of mites and beetles
Date
22 September 1711
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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Manuscript page number
p17
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 155mm
width (page): 170mm
width (page): 170mm
Subject
Description
Five figures. Drawn by an anonymous draftsman. Letter by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society.
Fig. 1: hair of a mite, as the draftsman observed through a magnifying glass.
Fig. 2: a hair from the body of a honey-bee.
Fig. 3: skin of a small animal, a worm, found on dried fish. (According to Alle de Brieven, vol. 16, p. 305, Leeuwenhoek is talking about the Whitemarked spider beetle.)
Fig. 4: a hairy part that could be found on the shed skin of this animal.
Fig. 5: the beetle that grew out of this worm.
Fig. 1: hair of a mite, as the draftsman observed through a magnifying glass.
Fig. 2: a hair from the body of a honey-bee.
Fig. 3: skin of a small animal, a worm, found on dried fish. (According to Alle de Brieven, vol. 16, p. 305, Leeuwenhoek is talking about the Whitemarked spider beetle.)
Fig. 4: a hairy part that could be found on the shed skin of this animal.
Fig. 5: the beetle that grew out of this worm.
Object history
A. Leeuwenhoek, ‘Additional observations upon the production of mites’, Phil. Trans., vol. 27, no. 333 (January, February and March 1712), pp. 398-415, figs 1-5.
Related fellows
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
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