Spermatozoon
Date
1699
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
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Description
Three specimens of human spermatozoon as observed through a microscope by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek.
Illustrations to ‘Part of a letter from Mr. Leuvenhook, dated June 9th. 1699. concerning the animalcula in semine humano, &c’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 21, issue 255 (August 1699). In this article, Leeuwenhoek notes that the middle and bottom figures resemble the human form: ‘the shape of a Human Body so exactly, so that they lay straight extended, with their hands upon the Abdomen, and the Two Legs Straight out by one an other’.
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) Dutch microscopist, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1680.
Illustrations to ‘Part of a letter from Mr. Leuvenhook, dated June 9th. 1699. concerning the animalcula in semine humano, &c’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 21, issue 255 (August 1699). In this article, Leeuwenhoek notes that the middle and bottom figures resemble the human form: ‘the shape of a Human Body so exactly, so that they lay straight extended, with their hands upon the Abdomen, and the Two Legs Straight out by one an other’.
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) Dutch microscopist, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1680.
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