Wrote Letter L-548 of 1717-03-06 to the members of the Royal Society tendons and muscle fibres in sheep, flea, ox, honeybee, oyster, and mussel

Date: 
March 6, 1717
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-548
Leeuwenhoek's number: 
XXXIII
Collected Letters volume: 
18

Text of the letter in the original Dutch and in English translation in Alle de Brieven / The Collected Letters is not yet available at the DBNL - De Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren.

The original manuscript is lost.

In this letter, Leeuwenhoek returns to structures that he had often studied: tendons and muscle fibres of a sheep, a flea, an ox, a honeybee, an oyster and a mussel.