Alle de Brieven. The Collected Letters. Volume 10

Author:

Leeuwenhoek, A. van

Volume:

Publisher:

Amsterdam: Swets and Zeitlinger

Year:

1979

Letters 134 [80] – 147 [90] written between 1694 and 1695. Editor, L.C. Palm

The links below take you to the text of the letter in the original Dutch and in English translation from Alle de Brieven. The Collected Letters at the DBNL - De Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren (Digital Library for Dutch Letters).

Cole's number, usually the same as Leeuwenhoek's, is in brackets. These are the numbers used by Dobell, who wrote before the Committee of Dutch Scientists began collecting and numbering all of the letters.

Letter 134 [80] of 2 March 1694

Letter 135 [81] of 19 March 1694

Letter 136 [82] of 2 April 1694

Letter 137 [83] of 30 April 1694

Letter 138 of 26 May 1694

Letter 139 [84] of 14 September 1694

Letter 140 [85] of 30 November 1694

Letter 141 [86] of 10 April 1695

Letter 142 [87] of 22 April 1695

Letter 143 [88] of 1 May 1695

Letter 144 [89] of 18 May 1695

Letter 145 of 21 May 1695

Letter 146 of 23 May 1695

Letter 147 [90] of 10 July 1695

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Related events:

Date	Event
October 20, 1692	Christiaan Huygens wrote Letter L-223 to Leeuwenhoek about the procreation of eels and spontaneous generation and praised his work and diligence
September 3, 1693	George Garden wrote Letter L-227 to Leeuwenhoek about the role of egg and ovaries in reproduction
February 28, 1694	Benedictus Haan wrote Letter L-237 to Leeuwenhoek agreeing with him against George Garden about the female ovary
May 2, 1694	Richard Waller wrote Letter L-243 to Leeuwenhoek about recent observations, to request a portrait, and to introduce Mr. Walfort, who delivered it

Related letters:

What Leeuwenhoek wrote ...
Wrote Letter L-239 of 1694-03-02 to the members of the Royal Society about ear wax and hair, body hair, the amount of sweat secreted from the human body, and the possibility that sperm might penetrate the ovum
Wrote Letter L-240 of 1694-03-19 to the members of the Royal Society refuting George Garden's ideas in Letter L-227 about the role of the ovary and eggs
Wrote Letter L-241 of 1694-04-02 to the members of the Royal Society about the tongue of an ox and a pig and the heart of a sheep, ox, duck, chicken and cod
Wrote Letter L-242 of 1694-04-30 to the members of the Royal Society about his criticisms of Buonanni's theory of spontaneous generation, about mussels, barnacles, shrimp larvae, the eye of a dragon-fly, gnat, fly, and ant, and about ant eggs
Wrote Letter L-244 of 1694-05-26 to Richard Waller, cover letter for copy of Vierde Vervolg der Brieven
Wrote Letter L-245 of 1694-09-14 to Richard Waller about blood circulation and having sent six copies of his portrait to London
Wrote Letter L-246 of 1694-11-30 to Pieter Rabus about about dragon-fly eyes and eggs, crab eyes, vertebrate corneas, another rejection of spontaneous generation, and the impregnation of women
Wrote Letter L-247 of 1695-04-10 to Anthonie Heinsius about blood and its circulation in a crab's leg, crystals in evaporated crab blood, and the hairs on a crab's leg
Wrote Letter L-248 of 1695-04-22 to Frederik Adriaan van Reede about the apple-blossom weevil, its larvae, their danger, and their metamorphosis and the reproduction of black flies on apple tree blossoms
Wrote Letter L-251 of 1695-05-01 to Anthonie Heinsius about weevils, nutmegs and their safe storage, and tobacco seeds and their germination
Wrote Letter L-253 of 1695-05-18 to Frederik Adriaan van Reede about the apple-blossom weevil, caterpillars and the metamorphosis of the small ermine moth, and parasitic flies
Wrote Letter L-254 of 1695-05-21 to Pieter Rabus about the eggs and blood vessels of the ray
Wrote Letter L-255 of 1695-05-23 to Maarten Etienne van Velden about the impossibility of small flies being generated from the body of a big dead caterpillars, again refuting the theory of spontaneous generation
Wrote Letter L-260 of 1695-07-10 to Frederik Adriaan van Reede about aphids, their reproduction, and the unsuccessful search for male aphids

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