Lambert van Velthuysen wrote Letter L-089 to Leeuwenhoek about procreation
Date:
June 17, 1679
This letter is known only by reference in Leeuwenhoek’s reply.
In this letter, Lambert van Velthuysen writes to Leeuwenhoek about procreation in such abstruse language that Leeuwenhoek has difficulty understanding it.
Document:
Letter 50 L-090 of 11 July 1679 to Lambert van Velthuysen:
I find in your welcome letter of June 17th the assertion of some learned gentlemen concerning the generation of plants and animals, according to which procreation does not take place anew; but in your further discussion you enter so deeply into the subject and are so abstruse that I do not judge myself competent to give an opinion.
