Microscopic views of muscle fibres and red blood cells of fish speech View of a house at

View of a house at the back of Holborn

The church was bought by the townspeople of St Albans in 1553 to serve as their parish church after the abbey was closed by the Dissolution of the Monasteries

The yard is lined with onlookers

Transverse section of St John's Chapel in the White Tower

Interior view of the French Protestant Church

Microscopic views of muscle fibres and red blood cells of fish speech View of a house atEngraved plate showing illustrations accompanying a letter describing Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's microscopical observations, dated March 1682. The plate was printed with an English extract of the letter in Philosophical Collections ed. Robert Hooke (London, 1682) no. 5, pp. 152 160. The illustrations show: microscopic view of muscle fibres (figs. 1 and 2); micro organisms (fig. 3); the muscle fibres of a cod (fig. 4); the nucleus in erythrocytes (red