Observations of the membranes around fibres into which the muscle is divided
Date
9 January 1720
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p8a
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 230mm
width (page): 178mm
width (page): 178mm
Subject
Description
Two engraved images; the originals are stuck in Letter Book 15 at LBO/15/298.
The printed images are cut out of plate 2 from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 31, no. 367 (1721). The printed images are depicted in reverse compared to the original drawings.
Letter by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society.
Fig. 1: membranes in fibres of meat (in this case beef).
Fig. 2: the membrane (M) with the branches of meat fibres that grow our of the membrane. The fibres are shown in cross sections.
The printed images are cut out of plate 2 from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 31, no. 367 (1721). The printed images are depicted in reverse compared to the original drawings.
Letter by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society.
Fig. 1: membranes in fibres of meat (in this case beef).
Fig. 2: the membrane (M) with the branches of meat fibres that grow our of the membrane. The fibres are shown in cross sections.
Object history
Figs 1-2 in A. Leeuwenhock, ‘Observations upon the membranes enclosing the fasciculi of fibres, into which a muscle is divided’, Phil. Trans. vol. 31, no. 367 (1721), pp. 129-34.
Related fellows
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Naturalist
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