Wrote letter of 1710-02-21 (AB 283) to Members of the Royal Society
Standard reference information The original manuscript on fsix quarto pages, written and signed by Leeuwenhoek, is preserved in London in the British Museum's Sloane Collection (f. 220-226). It was accompanied by drawings that are lost.
Leeuwenhoek's summary Leeuwenhoek did not include the letters from 1702-04-28 (AB 237) through 1712-06-10 (AB 294) among his self-published and thus self-numbered letters. Those with scientific observations were all addressed to members of the Royal Society and almost all of them were excerpted in Philosophical Transactions .
Reception in London The letter was read in the meeting of the Royal Society of April 19, 1710, O.S. (Royal Society, Journal Book Original, vol. 11, p. 188).
A practically complete English translation of the letter was pubished in Philosophical Transactions no. 324 for November and December 1709, pp. 479-484 with four figures. The manuscript for that translation on six folio pages is preserved in London at the Royal Society (MS 2086, L.4.35).
Specimens and methods On the shape and crystallization of diamonds.
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