Wrote Letter L-255 of 1695-05-23 to Maarten Etienne van Velden about the impossibility of small flies being generated from the body of a big dead caterpillars, again refuting the theory of spontaneous generation

Date: 
May 23, 1695
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-255
Collected Letters number: 
146
Collected Letters volume: 
10

Text of the letter in the original Dutch and in English translation from Alle de Brieven. The Collected Letters at the DBNL - De Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren

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The impossibility of small flies being generated from the bodies of big dead caterpillars, refuting the theory of spontaneous generation