Alle de Brieven. The Collected Letters. Volume 9

Author:

Leeuwenhoek, A. van

Volume:

Publisher:

Amsterdam: Swets and Zeitlinger

Year:

1976

Letters 120 [72] – 133 [79] written between 1692 and 1694. Editor, J. Heniger

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 120 [72] of of 22 April 1692

Letter 121 [73] of 24 June 1692

Letter 122 [74] of 12 August 1692

Letter 123 [75] of 16 September 1692

Letter 124 of 23 September 1692

Letter 125 of 1 July 1693

Letter 126 [76] of 15 October 1693

Letter 127 of 27 October 1693

Letter 128 of 8 December 1693

Letter 129 [77] of 20 December 1693

Letter 130 of 19 January 1694

Letter 131 [78] of 24 January 1694

Letter 132 of 12 February 1694

Letter 133 [79] of 24 February 1694

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Related sources:

Year	Author	Title
1939 - 2018	Leeuwenhoek, A. van	Alle de Brieven. The Collected Letters.
1969	Heniger, J.	Verslag van het werkbezoek van de redacteur aan de Royal Society te Londen, 5-15.X.1969

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What Leeuwenhoek wrote ...
Wrote Letter L-217 of 1692-04-22 to Richard Waller about the construction of an air pump and experiments with different liquids, seeds and small stones in urine, a hog's hair in the skin of a child, and grains of wheat
Wrote Letter L-218 of 1692-06-24 to the members of the Royal Society about more experiments with his air-pump, the structure of and blood in an insect's wing, a grey owlet moth, and the wing of a very small fly
Wrote Letter L-220 of 1692-08-12 to the members of the Royal Society about the shaft of a bird's feather as used in a quill, the lens and cornea of the human and calf eyes, 'wood-pipes' in different species of wood, bulrushes, and pine and lime wood
Wrote Letter L-221 of 1692-09-16 to the members of the Royal Society about little animals in dental tartar, theories of eel reproduction, worms in eel intestines, and blood vessels in grasshoppers
Wrote Letter L-222 of 1692-09-23 to Mary, Queen of Great Britain, the dedication to Derde Vervolg der Brieven
Wrote Letter L-225 of 1693-07-01 to Richard Waller, cover letter for a volume in Latin and confirmation of receipt of Letter L-224
Wrote Letter L-228 of 1693-10-15 to the members of the Royal Society about colors and the life cycle of fleas
Wrote Letter L-229 of 1693-10-27 to Pieter Rabus about procreation of the flea, the leather-jacket, and the mite
Wrote Letter L-230 of 1693-12-08 to Richard Waller, a cover letter
Wrote Letter L-231 of 1693-12-20 to the members of the Royal Society about spiders, lice, and mites
Wrote Letter L-232 of 1694-01-19 to Richard Waller as a cover letter for Letter L-231
Wrote Letter L-233 of 1694-01-24 to the members of the Royal Society about tapeworms and salt and sand in cod intestines
Wrote Letter L-235 of 1694-02-12 to Richard Waller as a cover letter for Letter L-233
Wrote Letter L-236 of 1694-02-24 to the members of the Royal Society about his experiments with solid phosphorus

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