Volume 1
Alle de brieven van Antoni van Leeuwenhoek / uitgegeven, geïllustreerd en van aanteekeningen voorzien door een Commissie van Nederlandsche geleerden.
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
- Date:
- 1939-
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Alle de brieven van Antoni van Leeuwenhoek / uitgegeven, geïllustreerd en van aanteekeningen voorzien door een Commissie van Nederlandsche geleerden. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Addressed to: H. Oldenburg, Secretary of the Royal Society. Manuscript: Signed autograph; Royal Society, London, MS. 1832, L 1. 4. Six folio pages. Four figures in the margin of the text. PUBLISHED : Phil. Trans. Vol. IX. No. 106. Septemb. 21. London, 1674; pp. 121-128. With six figures, the two last going with the letter of July 6th 1674 (ibid, pp. 128-131). (Part of the letter in English.) Recueil d’expériences et observations sur le combat qui procédé du mélange des corps, etc. Observations faites avec le microscope sur le sang, le lait, le sucre, le sel, etc. par Mr. Lewenhoeck de Delft en Hollande (de la traduction de M. Mesmin). Paris, 1679; pp. 225-236. With five figures. (French trans¬ lation of pp. 121-124 of the Phil. Trans.) Journal des Sgavans de Ian 1679. Tome VIL XV. Lundy 26 juin. Amster¬ dam, 1679; pp. 198-201. (A French extract from the above-mentioned translation.) Collection académique. Partie étrangère. Tome II. Dijon et Auxerre, 1755; pp. 395-398. (French translation of the letter in the Phil. Trans, with omission of the last part.) Genees- en heelk. proeven en aanmerkingen, vervat in de Phil. Trans. [H. van Someren]. Eerste deel, tweede stuk. Amsterdam, 1775; pp. 278-287. With the six figures of the Phil. Trans. (Dutch translation of the Phil. Trans.) Abhandl. z. Naturgesch., Physik und Oekonomie [N. G. Leske]. I, 2. Leipzig, 1780; pp. 20-21. (German extract from the Phil. Trans.) A. J. J. Vandevelde en W. H, van Seters, Verslagen en mededeelingen der Koninklijke Vlaamsche Academie. 1925; pp. 174-180. (Dutch text.) SUMMARY: The difference in weight between blood-corpuscles and serum; the colour of blood and the technique of a microscopical examination of the blood. A theory of the rise of a fluid in thin tubes. The microscopical structure of bone, teeth, liver and brain; the technique of an examination of the cerebral texture, of the spinal marrow and of the muscular tissue; the growth of the epidermis. FIGURES : This letter is accompanied by four ink-drawings in the margin. REMARKS : A copy of this letter, sent to Constantine Huygens, is in the University Library at Leiden. Vandevelde and van Seters have published this copy. See above.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31364962_0001_0097.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
