Microscopic view of an oyster shell Size:XXL: 127 x 100cm crossing the line dividing Indian

crossing the line dividing Indian territory from Inuit

Pond Street

Albion House and the entrance to the Princess's Theatre

The boy is lent against a desk with books on

29 April 1802

Microscopic view of an oyster shell Size:XXL: 127 x 100cm crossing the line dividing IndianIllustrations accompanying a letter describing Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's microscopical observations, dated March 1682. An English extract was printed in Philosophical Collections ed. Robert Hooke (London, 1682) no. 5, pp. 152 160. The illustrations show an oyster shell (fig. 6), and Leeuwenhoek's hypothesis about the formation of oyster shells (fig. 7). Original: red chalk on paper. 1682