Wrote Letter L-358 of 1699-08-05 to the directors of the United East India Company in Delft about circulation of the blood in the leg of a scorpion from India that they had sent to him; a description of the eight eyes and the pincers

Date: 
August 5, 1699
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-358
Leeuwenhoek's number: 
118
Collected Letters number: 
202
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 circulation of the blood in the leg of a scorpion from India that the directors had sent him; description of the eight eyes and the pincers.