Wrote Letter L-330 of 1697-11-02 to Antonio Magliabechi to thank him for two of his letters and to complain that the book sent to him has not yet arrived

Date: 
November 2, 1697
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-330
Leeuwenhoek's number: 
110a
Collected Letters number: 
189
Collected Letters volume: 
12

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


Leeuwenhoek wrote this letter to thank Magliabechi for two of his letters and to complain that the book sent to him has not yet arrived. He relates his correspondence with Luca Giamberti, who Magliabechi had entrusted the book to. Giamberti, however, gave it to a Mr. Lotty the previous July, and Leeuwenhoek had not heard anything since.

The two most recent letters from Magliabechi are Letter L-322 of 1 June 1697 and Letter L-326 of August 1697.

The book is Lorenzo Magalotti’s Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell’Academia del Cimento (Essays on natural experiments done at the Academia del Cimento).