Summary

The table below compares characteristics of Leeuwenhoek's published volumes of letters during Period 1. More detail about each -- frontispieces, dedications, indexes, etc. -- can be found on the right sidebar menu. For later editions, only the differences are noted.

Notes for the table:

Tp - separate title page - yes/no

Sm - summary on title page - yes/no

F - frontispiece - number of pages

D - dedication - number of pages of dedications, poems, and notes to the reader in the front matter

R - register - summaries of letters in the front matter, in one volume including errata - yes/no

Pag - pagination - continuous or separate - Roman numerals for front matter and indices; Arabic for text

N - numbered - each letter identified in the text by the number Leeuwenhoek gave it - yes/no

S - summary - each letter preceded by a summary of its contents - yes/no

F - number of figures, in the text and on the plates

P - number of single-page or fold-out plates on unnumbered pages

In - index - number of pages, including errata, if any

Summary of Characteristics

Ondervindingen en Beschouwingen
Experiences and Considerations
Dobell # Tp Sm Fr D R Pag running headers N S F P In
1. Waarheden y n n 4 n vii + 1-8 + 1-32 + 1-19 v: Ondervindingen
r: van A. Leeuwenhoek. (p. 3 Leeuwenhouk.)		 n n 21 0 n
   1a.           ii + 3-60 corrected p. 3          
2. Eyerstok y y n n n ii +1-21 v: Ondervindingen
r: van Ant. Leeuwenhoek. 		n n 7 0 n
   2a. 37th n n 1-20   y
3. Schobbens y n n 2 y* iv + 1-24 v: Ondervindingen
r: van Ant. Leeuwenhoek.		 n y 11 0 n
   3a. 40th n n n 1-24   y
4. Humor y y n n n ii + 1-26 v: Ondervindingen
r: van Ant. Leeuwenhoek.		 n y 9 0 n
   17. 41st   y

Ontledingen en Ontdekkingen
Dissections and Discoveries
  Tp Sm Fr D R Pag running headers N S F P In
5. Verborg y n n n n ii + 3-94
(missing 73-78)		 v: Antoni van Leeuwenhoeks
r: Ontledingen en Ontdekkingen.		 n y 22 0 n
   5a. ii + 3-88  
   5b.   y
6. Sout y n n n n ii + 1-76

v: Antoni van Leeuwenhoeks
pp. 3-39 (Letter 44)
r: Ontdekkingen van Sout-Figuren.
pp. 41-76 (Letter 45)
r: Ontledingen en Ontdekkingen.

 n y  23 1  n
   6a.               y        
7. Zaden y y n n  n  ii + 3-78

v: Antoni van Leeuwenhoeks
pp. 3-49 (Letter 46, first part 47)
r: Voorteeling der Boomen.
pp. 50-78 (second part 47)
r: Ondervindingen.

  n  y  37  1  n
   7a.                      
8. Levende  y n De Hooghe n n  iv + 5-76 * v: Antoni van Leeuwenhoeks
r: Ontledingen en Ontdekkingen.

n 28-31
y 34-36

  y 41    n
   8a.     Verkolje         y        
9. Cinnaber y y n n n ii + 3-110 v: Antoni van Leeuwenhoeks
r: Ontledingen en Ontdekkingen.		 n  y  49   n
   9a.                        

Latin translations

As explained in more detail on the Anatomia et Contemplatio, Anatomia Seu Interiora Rerum, and Arcana Naturae Microscopiorum pages on the right sidebar, Dobell gave two numbers to the 1687 editions, #22 to the publications with the misspelled title and #23 to those with the correctly spelled title. Each of them came in two versions, here labeled typesettings A and B. Further complicating matters, Dobell misnumbered the 1696 and 1708 ediitons, so they are included here without a number.

They all had the same content: Letters 43, 42, 38 + 28-31, 34-36, 46, 47, 44, 45, 48-52.

Dobell # Tp Sm Fr D R Pag running headers N S F P In
21. A & Cont. y n n  n n  ii + 3-78 r: Antonii de Leeuwenhoeck
v: Anatomia & Contemplatio		 n all but 43 22 n n
22. A & Int. - A                        
- B                        
23. A & Int. - A                        
- B                        
Arcana Micro 1696                        
1708                        
Opera Omnia 1722                        

* Summaries of the letters in the previous volumes.

Notes for the table:

Tp - separate title page - yes/no

Sm - summary on title page - yes/no

F - frontispiece - number of pages

D - dedication - number of pages of dedications, poems, and notes to the reader in the front matter

R - register - summaries of letters in the front matter, in one volume including errata - yes/no

Pag - pagination - continuous or separate - Roman numerals for front matter and indices; Arabic for text

N - numbered - each letter identified in the text by the number Leeuwenhoek gave it - yes/no

S - summary - each letter preceded by a summary of its contents - yes/no

F - number of figures, in the text and on the plates

P - number of single-page or fold-out plates on unnumbered pages

In - index - number of pages, including errata, if any

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