Wrote Letter L-096 of 1679-11-20 to Robert Hooke, copying his Letter L-095 of 14 November 1679 about gout, salt, and drinking tea
Date:
November 20, 1679
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.
The signed autograph on four quarto pages is in London, Royal Society (MS. 1875. L l. 46).
Leeuwenhoek wrote this letter to Hooke, copying his whole Letter L-095 of 14 November 1679 to Velthuysen about gout and bladder stones. He added opening and closing paragraphs directed explicitly to Hooke.
This letter was not published during Leeuwenhoek's lifetime.