Wrote Letter L-295 of 1696-07-10 to the members of the Royal Society about the circulation of blood in eels; mites, figs, strawberries, and a lobster's leg; a transcription of Christiaan Huygens's Letter L-223 about the reproduction of eels

Date: 
July 10, 1696
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-295
Leeuwenhoek's number: 
101
Collected Letters number: 
169
Collected Letters volume: 
11

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

Leeuwenhoek's hand-written original letter from the Royal Society's Science in the Making

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Transcribes Christiaan Huygens's Letter L-223 of 20 October 1692 about the reproduction of eels; discusses the circulation of blood in eels; mites; the embryo of figs and of strawberries; hairs on a lobster's leg