Wrote Letter L-323 of 1697-06-06 to Antonio Magliabechi about marine fossils found in mountain rocks and the present of copies of Continuatio Arcanorum Naturae sent to Florence

Date: 
June 6, 1697
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-323
Leeuwenhoek's number: 
108a
Collected Letters number: 
185
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 about …

about his discoveries of marine fossils from mountain rocks, in response to the letter Magliabechi sent about the elephant skeleton that Dr. Scaramucci reported discovered in Saxony.

Also,  the present of three copies of Continuatio Arcanorum Naturae sent to Florence