Microscopic studies
Date
1705
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Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
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Technique
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Description
Twelve figures from issue 298 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, depicting various microscopic studies.
Figures I-II. Microscopic studies of a flint crystal, or chert, specimen.
Figure III-VIII. Microscopic studies of the particles of the residue formed from boiling flint crystal in rain water.
Figure IX-XII. Microscopic studies of a rock crystal, or quartz, specimen.
Illustrations to ‘A letter from Mr Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, F. R. S. concerning the figures of the salts of crystal’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 24, issue 298 (April 1705).
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) Dutch microscopist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1680.
Figures I-II. Microscopic studies of a flint crystal, or chert, specimen.
Figure III-VIII. Microscopic studies of the particles of the residue formed from boiling flint crystal in rain water.
Figure IX-XII. Microscopic studies of a rock crystal, or quartz, specimen.
Illustrations to ‘A letter from Mr Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, F. R. S. concerning the figures of the salts of crystal’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 24, issue 298 (April 1705).
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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