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Letter 18 (AB 26) of October 9, 1676, is Leeuwenhoek's most famous letter, the one in which he describes in detail the microbes in his infusions. Note the links there under Publication history and Learn more to all of the pages, events, and sources related to this letter on Lens on Leeuwenhoek.

On Leeuwenhoek's Method of Seeing Bacteria

Author:

Cohen, B.

Journal:

Journal of Bacteriology

Volume:

34, 3, 343-346

Year:

1937

This article expanded on some comments that Cohen made in the introduction to his translation of Leeuwenhoek's letter of October 9, 1676.

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Year	Author	Title
1937	Cohen, B.	The Leeuwenhoek letter

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What Leeuwenhoek wrote ...
Wrote Letter L-040 of 1676-10-09 to Henry Oldenburg about little animals in various waters and spice infusions, the relationship of their shape to taste, and whether there were little animals in the air

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