Complete Collected Letters

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Master list (pdf) of all 602 L-numbers, their Leeuwenhoek number, and their Collected Letters number

Life in Holland

in the 1600's

The Poultry Woman

Man Writing a Letter

Feast of the Bean King

The Virginal Lesson

Work in Holland

in the 1600's

Published Vervolg der Brieven (Continuation of the Letters), Letters 53 - 60 (3rd)

Date:

January 1, 1704

Boutesteyn published it in Leiden

Sources

Year	Author	Title
1687	Leeuwenhoek, A. van	Vervolg der Brieven

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Wrote Letter L-186 of 1687-04-04 to the members of the Royal Society about the structure of the teeth of elephants, pigs, humans, oxen, and horses and about toothache
Wrote Letter L-187 of 1687-05-09 to members of the Royal Society about the structure of 'stone' of the medlar and the coffee bean and acid in plants
Wrote Letter L-188 of 1687-06-13 to members of the Royal Society about wheat and the seeds from a variety of plants
Wrote Letter L-189 of 1687-07-11 to members of the Royal Society about eggs of silkworms and caterpillars and humans' squinting and a theory for its cause
Wrote Letter L-190 of 1687-08-06 to members of the Royal Society about the calander and the louse and against spontaneous generation
Wrote Letter L-192 of 1687-09-09 to members of the Royal Society about ant eggs, larvae and its development, feeding, sting, cocoon and nest
Wrote Letter L-193 of 1687-10-17 to members of the Royal Society about amber, 'burned paper' from the sky, rotifers, maggots, blow flies, the stinging hairs of nettles, and the East-Indian centipede
Wrote Letter L-194 of 1687-11-28 to members of the Royal Society about his discovery that cochineal was an insect and his experiments with cinchona bark

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