Wrote Letter L-306 of 1696-10-26 to Maarten Etienne van Velden to accompany a presentation copy of his printed letters, Sesde Vervolg Der Brieven (Sixth Continuation of the Letters)

Date: 
October 26, 1696
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-306
Collected Letters number: 
178
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 cover letter to accompany a presentation copy of his printed letters, Sesde Vervolg Der Brieven, containing a letter that Leeuwenhoek was moved to write (mij bewogen gevonden) in defense of Van Velden's contested Copernican theories.