Wrote Letter L-318 of 1697-04-05 to the members of the Royal Society about experiments with magnets, a meniscus in a glass, and patients given 'sympathetic' powder as a medicine by a German quack doctor

Date: 
April 5, 1697
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-318
Leeuwenhoek's number: 
108
Collected Letters number: 
184
Collected Letters volume: 
12

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 wrote this letter about …

Experiments with magnets; explanations of a meniscus in a glass; patients who have been given 'sympathetic' powder (solution based on copper sulphate) as a medicine -- German quack