Salt crystals, spinning wheel
Date
1701
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
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Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 213mm
width (page): 150mm
width (page): 150mm
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Description
Ten figures from issue 273 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Figures I-III. Microscopic studies of salt crystals in boiled rainwater. Illustrations to ‘II. A letter from Mr Antony van Leeuwenhoek, F. R. S. To Mr Chamberlaine, concerning the causes of the different tastes of waters and edge of razors’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 22, issue 273 (August 1701).
Original letter from Leeuwenhoek containing these images can be found in Early Letters of the Royal Society, EL/L3/31.
Figure VI-X. Various parts of a spinning wheel, including: clamps (IV, V), bench (VI), reel (VII), with hook (VIII), and handle (IX), and vessel of oil (X). Illustrations to ‘V. An abstract of a letter, wrote some time since, by Signior John Ciampini of Rome, to Father Bernard Joseph a Jesu Maria, &c. concerning the asbestus, and manner of spinning and making an incombustible cloath thereof’in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 22, issue 273 (August 1701).
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) Dutch microscopist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1680.
Figures I-III. Microscopic studies of salt crystals in boiled rainwater. Illustrations to ‘II. A letter from Mr Antony van Leeuwenhoek, F. R. S. To Mr Chamberlaine, concerning the causes of the different tastes of waters and edge of razors’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 22, issue 273 (August 1701).
Original letter from Leeuwenhoek containing these images can be found in Early Letters of the Royal Society, EL/L3/31.
Figure VI-X. Various parts of a spinning wheel, including: clamps (IV, V), bench (VI), reel (VII), with hook (VIII), and handle (IX), and vessel of oil (X). Illustrations to ‘V. An abstract of a letter, wrote some time since, by Signior John Ciampini of Rome, to Father Bernard Joseph a Jesu Maria, &c. concerning the asbestus, and manner of spinning and making an incombustible cloath thereof’in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 22, issue 273 (August 1701).
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) Dutch microscopist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1680.
Related fellows
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Microscopist
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