Christiaan Huygens observed little animals in water that Leeuwenhoek had sent to him
Date:
June 11, 1678
Document:
Huygens wrote in French:
Observè les petits animaux qui naissent dans de l'eau ou l'on a mis du poivre concassè. c'estoit de l'eau que le Sr. Leeuwenhoeck avoit envoiè 3 ou 4 jours auparavant.
English translation:
Observe the small animals that are born in water where crushed pepper has been added. It was water that Sr. Leeuwenhoeck had sent 3 or 4 days before.
