Wrote Letter L-111 of 1680-11-12 to Robert Hooke about blood globules, lees of wine, globules in rain water, milk vessels, reproduction, little animals in the male seed of animals, and their incomprehensible smallness

Date: 
November 12, 1680
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-111
Leeuwenhoek's number: 
33
Collected Letters number: 
65
Collected Letters volume: 
3

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.

The original manuscript on seventeen quarto pages, written and signed by Leeuwenhoek, is preserved along with both figures at the Royal Society (MS. 1881. L 1. 62). It had eight drawings.