Antony van Leeuwenhoek and his “little animals”

Author:

Dobell, C.

Publisher:

New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Co

Year:

1932

full text of the first edition of 1932 re-published 1960 by Dover Publications, New York, available online at Archive.org

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Related sources:

Year	Author	Title
1930	Leeuwenhoek, A. van	Veertien tot heden geheel onuitgegeven brieven / Fourteen Hitherto Totally Unpublished Letters

Related events:

Date	Event
August 1, 1674	First observed little animals in water
February 5, 1685	Visited by Thomas Molyneux on behalf of the Royal Society
February 13, 1685	Thomas Molyneaux wrote Letter L-155 of 1685-02-13 to Francis Aston about his visit to Leeuwenhoek's house
May 25, 1686	Edmond Halley wrote Letter L-176 to Leeuwenhoek about a gift from the Royal Society and requesting some portraits
March 4, 1699	Listed as a correspondent of Claude Burlet by the Académie des Sciences of Paris
December 4, 1710	Visited by Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach: "more of ingenuity than foundation"
August 2, 1711	James Petiver wrote Letter L-478 of 2 August 1711 to Leeuwenhoek to complain about what happened when he tried to visit
August 29, 1723	pastor Petrus Gribius wrote Letter L-589 to James Jurin announcing Leeuwenhoek's death
October 4, 1723	pastor Petrus Gribius wrote Letter L-592 to James Jurin about Leeuwenhoek's methods
October 4, 1723	daughter Maria wrote Letter L-591 as a cover letter for the cabinet with 26 magnifying glasses to the Royal Society (AB 381)

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Leeuwenhoek as Camerbewaarder
Leeuwenhoek's language: "untidy word avalanches"
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What Leeuwenhoek wrote ...
Wrote Letter L-040 of 1676-10-09 to Henry Oldenburg about little animals in various waters and spice infusions, the relationship of their shape to taste, and whether there were little animals in the air
Wrote Letter L-085 of 1679-05-20 to Constantijn Huygens about the number and size of the little animals he was observing
Wrote Letter L-104 of 1680-05-13 to Members of the Royal Society expressing his surprise and gratitude at being elected a member
Wrote Letter L-464 of 1708-06-29 to the members of the Royal Society about his further observations of the white furry substance on his own tongue during attacks of fever

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