The Royal Society read part of Letter L-168 about the particles composing cinnabar
Date:
May 1, 1686
Document:
Birch, History, vol IV, p. 479, 21 April 1686 (O.S.) in London:
Part of a letter of Mr. LEEWENHOECK was read, wherein he described the particles composing cinnabar, shewing them to be made up mostly of hexagonal figures, yet not without the mixture of some sulphureous and saline particles, whose figures, as viewed in his microscope, he described.
