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A coach laden with passengers passing the front of a house before which two men are sitting at a table smoking pipes and drinking
He gestures towards the instrument with his right hand
View of Queen Victoria's royal progress through the City of London
'Deep Sea Fishing'
London Bridge Station
Microscopical observations of the development of the ant mb-width 5707 A coach laden with passengersIllustrations accompanying a letter describing Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's microscopical observations, dated 9 September 1687. The illustrations show: a fully formed ant inside an egg, as (incorrectly) observed by J F Griendelius and illustrated in his work Micrographia Nova (Nuremberg, 1687) (fig. 1); an ant egg (fig. 2); ant larva developing in an egg (fig. 3); a dead ant larva inside a partially dried egg (fig. 4); ant larvae (figs. 5 and 6); the