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Complete Collected Letters

Volumes 1 through 20 of Alle de Brieven / Collected Letters, the complete series. Download for free.

Which number?

Master list (pdf) of all 602 L-numbers, their Leeuwenhoek number, and their Collected Letters number

Life in Holland

in the 1600's

Old Woman Selling Fish

The Poultry Woman

The Wine Drinker

The Sick Child

Hunter's Gift

Work in Holland

in the 1600's

Physician

Bricklayer

Spinner

Engraver

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and his ideas on spontaneous generation

Author: 
Smit, P.
Publisher: 
Amsterdam: Rodopi
Year: 
1982
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Related sources: 
Year Author Title
1982 Palm, L. C. and H. A. M. Snelders (eds.) Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, 1632-1723: studies on the life and work of the Delft scientist
Related pages: 
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Leeuwenhoek's Cabinet of Wonders
Spontaneous generation
Related letters: 
What Leeuwenhoek wrote ...
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-264 of 1695-08-15 to Frederik Adriaan van Reede about oysters and their larvae, repudiating spontaneous generation
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Life in Holland

in the 1600's

Morning Toilet
Scholar at His Desk
The Dissolute Household
Mother with Cradle

At the Linen Closet

Woman and Maid with Child