Wrote Letter L-427 of 1704-10-03 to John Chamberlayne as a follow-up to Letter L-407 about tobbacco ashes, the salt crystals obtained from them, and an oily substance obtained by heating the ashes of tobacco

Date: 
October 3, 1704
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-427
Collected Letters number: 
251
Collected Letters volume: 
15

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 his description of salt crystals from a solution of the ashes of tobacco, and of an oily substance, obtained by heating the ashes of tobacco.