January 1, 1702 |
Published Sevende Vervolg der Brieven (Seventh Continuation of the Letters), Letters 108 - 146 |
February 9, 1702 |
Wrote Letter 144 of 1702-02-09 (AB 233) to Hendrik van Bleyswijk |
February 14, 1702 |
Wrote Letter 145 of 1702-02-14 (AB 234) to Members of the Royal Society |
April 19, 1702 |
cousin Cornelis Lambrechts Leeuwenhoek (1670-1702) buried |
April 20, 1702 |
Wrote Letter 146 of 1702-04-20 (AB 235) to Karl von Hessen-Kassel |
April 20, 1702 |
Wrote letter of 1702-04-20 (AB 236) to Karl von Hessen-Kassel |
April 28, 1702 |
Wrote letter of 1702-04-28 (AB 237) to Members of the Royal Society |
December 8, 1702 |
Wrote letter of 1702-12-08 (AB 238) to John Chamberlayne |
December 25, 1702 |
Wrote letter of 1702-12-25 (AB 239) to Members of the Royal Society |
February 5, 1703 |
Wrote letter of 1703-02-05 (AB 240) to Members of the Royal Society |
February 26, 1703 |
Wrote letter of 1703-02-26 (AB 241) to Members of the Royal Society |
March 3, 1703 |
Robert Hooke died |
November 3, 1703 |
Wrote letter of 1703-11-03 (AB 242) to Hans Sloane |
November 3, 1703 |
Wrote letter of 1703-11-03 (AB 243) to Members of the Royal Society |
December 4, 1703 |
Wrote letter of 1703-12-04 (AB 244) to Members of the Royal Society |
December 8, 1703 |
"We had a frightful storm from the southwest" |
January 1, 1704 |
Tried to resign from city inspector / wine gauger job |
January 1, 1704 |
Published Vervolg der Brieven (Continuation of the Letters), Letters 53 - 60 (3rd) |
January 8, 1704 |
Wrote letter of 1704-01-08 (AB 245) to Members of the Royal Society |
February 1, 1704 |
Wrote letter of 1704-02-01 (AB 246) to Members of the Royal Society |
February 11, 1704 |
Wrote letter of 1704-02-11 (AB 247) to Petrus Valckenier |
March 21, 1704 |
Wrote letter of 1704-03-21 (AB 248) to Members of the Royal Society |
May 29, 1704 |
Pieter Pollinckoven appointed wine gauger |
July 22, 1704 |
Wrote letter of 1704-07-22 (AB 249) to Members of the Royal Society |
September 16, 1704 |
Wrote letter of 1704-09-16 (AB 250) to Members of the Royal Society |
October 3, 1704 |
Wrote letter of 1704-10-03 (AB 251) to John Chamberlayne |
November 4, 1704 |
Wrote letter of 1704-11-04 (AB 252) to Members of the Royal Society |
December 13, 1704 |
Wrote letter of 1704-12-13 (AB 253) to Members of the Royal Society |
January 1, 1705 |
Peter Stout appointed assistant wine gauger |
March 3, 1705 |
Wrote letter of 1705-03-03 (AB 254) to Members of the Royal Society |
March 3, 1705 |
Wrote letter of 1705-03-03 (AB 255) to John Chamberlayne |
March 12, 1705 |
Wrote letter of 1705-03-12 (AB 256) to Antonio Magliabechi |
March 27, 1705 |
Wrote letter of 1705-03-27 (AB 257) to Members of the Royal Society |
March 30, 1705 |
Visited by Pieter Valkenier |
April 24, 1705 |
Wrote letter of 1705-04-24 (AB 258) to Members of the Royal Society |
May 25, 1705 |
Wrote letter of 1705-05-25 (AB 259) to Members of the Royal Society |
October 1, 1705 |
Visited by Francesco Cornaro |
December 18, 1705 |
Wrote letter of 1705-12-18 (AB 260) to Francesco Corner |
December 29, 1705 |
Wrote letter of 1705-12-29 (AB 261) to Members of the Royal Society |
March 7, 1706 |
Wrote letter of 1706-03-07 (AB 262) to Govert Bidloo |
March 7, 1706 |
Visited by Govert Bidloo |
March 19, 1706 |
Wrote letter of 1706-03-19 (AB 263) to Members of the Royal Society |
April 20, 1706 |
Wrote letter of 1706-04-20 (AB 264) to Members of the Royal Society |
June 1, 1706 |
Wrote letter of 1706-06-01 (AB 265) to Members of the Royal Society |
December 1, 1706 |
Wrote letter of 1707-00-01 (AB 266) to Angelus van Wikhuysen |
April 23, 1707 |
Hans Sloane wrote to Leeuwenhoek about not having received letters from him |
May 17, 1707 |
Wrote letter of 1707-05-17 (AB 267) to John Chamberlayne |
May 18, 1707 |
The Royal Society read Letter 267 of 1707-05-17 about bezoar stone and unanswered letters |
July 1, 1707 |
At age 74, his 75th publication in Philosophical Transactions |
July 5, 1707 |
Wrote letter of 1707-07-05 (AB 268) to Members of the Royal Society |
July 7, 1707 |
Visited by Gilbert and Thomas Burnet |
July 12, 1707 |
Wrote letter of 1707-07-12 (AB 269) to Members of the Royal Society |
July 25, 1707 |
Wrote letter of 1707-07-25 (AB 270) to Members of the Royal Society |
August 10, 1707 |
Wrote letter of 1707-08-10 (AB 271) to Anthonie Heinsius |
October 18, 1707 |
Wrote letter of 1707-10-18 (AB 272) to Members of the Royal Society |
November 22, 1707 |
Wrote letter of 1707-11-22 (AB 273) to Members of the Royal Society |
December 6, 1707 |
Wrote letter of 1707-12-06 (AB 274) to Members of the Royal Society |
January 1, 1708 |
Published Arcana Naturae Microscopiorum (Nature's Mcroscopical Mysteries), 19 Letters from 28 - 52 (3rd) |
January 1, 1708 |
Wrote letter of 1708-01-01 (AB 275) to Members of the Royal Society |
January 29, 1708 |
printer-bookseller Hendrik van Cronevelt buried |
April 29, 1708 |
daughter Maria Thonis named to receive a bequest in the will of her Bisschop cousins |
May 8, 1708 |
Bought neighboring property on Nieuwstraat |
June 29, 1708 |
Wrote letter of 1708-06-29 (AB 276) to Members of the Royal Society |
August 28, 1708 |
Wrote letter of 1708-08-28 (AB 277) to Members of the Royal Society |
October 9, 1708 |
Wrote letter of 1708-10-09 (AB 278) to Members of the Royal Society |
August 11, 1709 |
Hans Sloane received a letter from Dr. Archibald Adams about the making of microscopes |
September 10, 1709 |
Wrote letter of 1709-09-10 (AB 280) to John Chamberlayne |
September 10, 1709 |
Wrote letter of 1709-09-10 (AB 279) to Hans Sloane |
November 22, 1709 |
Wrote letter of 1709-11-22 (AB 281) to John Chamberlayne |
January 2, 1710 |
Visited by Alexander Stuart and two Scots gentlemen |
January 14, 1710 |
Wrote letter of 1710-01-14 (AB 282) to Members of the Royal Society |
January 26, 1710 |
cousin Elisabeth Maertens Leeuwenhoek married Leonard van Amsterdam |
February 2, 1710 |
Wrote letter of 1710-02-21 (AB 283) to Members of the Royal Society |
June 6, 1710 |
Wrote letter of 1710-06-06 (AB 284) to Members of the Royal Society |
July 1, 1710 |
Visited by Alexander Stuart |
November 11, 1710 |
Wrote letter of 1710-11-11 (AB 285) to Members of the Royal Society |
November 26, 1710 |
daughter Maria Thonis sold two little houses |
November 27, 1710 |
Visited by John Farrington |
December 4, 1710 |
Visited by Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach: "more of ingenuity than foundation" |
August 15, 1711 |
Wrote letter of 1711-08-15 (AB 286) to Anthonie Heinsius |
August 18, 1711 |
Wrote letter of 1711-08-18 (AB 287) to James Petiver |
September 22, 1711 |
Wrote letter of 1711-09-22 (AB 288) to Members of the Royal Society |
November 23, 1711 |
Wrote letter of 1711-11-23 (AB 289) to Anthonie Heinsius |
December 23, 1711 |
Delft's mayors annulled Leeuwenhoek's position of district supervisor |
December 29, 1711 |
Wrote letter of 1711-12-29 (AB 290) to Anthonie Heinsius |
December 29, 1711 |
Wrote letter of 1711-12-29 (AB 291) to Anthonie Heinsius |
February 11, 1712 |
Made will; he and daughter Maria universal heirs |
March 1, 1712 |
Wrote letter of 1712-03-01 (AB 292) to Members of the Royal Society |
March 25, 1712 |
microscopist Nehemiah Grew died |
April 12, 1712 |
Wrote letter of 1712-04-12 (AB 293) to Members of the Royal Society |
June 10, 1712 |
Wrote letter of 1712-06-10 (AB 294) to Members of the Royal Society |
August 5, 1712 |
Appointed guardian of ? Leeuwenvelt |
November 8, 1712 |
Wrote letter of 1712-11-08 (AB 295) to Anthonie Heinsius, a cover letter for AB 296 |
November 8, 1712 |
Wrote Letter I of 1712-11-08 (AB 296) to Anthonie Heinsius about the muscle fibres of a whale |
November 28, 1712 |
nephew Adriaan Johannes Swalmius married Agatha Amelia Cocquis |
December 17, 1712 |
Wrote Letter II of 1712-12-17 (AB 297) to Anthonie Heinsius about salts in the blood of a shrimp and the muscle fibres and enveloping membranes of cod, shrimp, flounder, and perch |
January 1, 1713 |
Published Cinnaber Naturalis (Natural Cinnabar), Letters 48 - 52 (2nd) |
February 28, 1713 |
Wrote Letter III of 1713-02-28 (AB 298) to Jan Meerman about wheat and barley grains, beans, peas, and chestnuts, vessels and membranes in coconut rind, and the embryo in an apple pip and in a coconut |
March 14, 1713 |
Wrote Letter IV of 1713-03-14 (AB 299) to Jan Meerman about the eye of a whale, the lens, and the cornea and calculations of the pressure upon a whale's eye at great depth |
March 25, 1713 |
Wrote Letter V of 1713-03-25 (AB 300) to Adriaen van Assendelft |
March 29, 1713 |
Wrote Letter VI of 1713-03-29 (AB 301) to Anthonie Heinsius |
June 28, 1713 |
Wrote Letter VII of 1713-06-28 (AB 302) to Members of the Royal Society |
June 30, 1713 |
Wrote Letter VIII of 1713-06-30 (AB 303) to Anthonie Heinsius |
October 12, 1713 |
Wrote letter of 1713-10-12 (AB 304) to Hans Sloane |
October 13, 1713 |
Hans Sloane wrote to Leeuwenhoek about responses to his recent letters |
October 24, 1713 |
Wrote Letter IX of 1713-10-24 (AB 305) to Antony Cinck |
November 19, 1713 |
nephew Jan Adriaans Swalmius baptized |
December 7, 1713 |
nephew Adriaan Johannes Swalmius admitted as notary |
January 6, 1714 |
cousin Maarten Pieters Hogenhouck appointed church warden, Oude Kerk and Nieuwe Kerk |
January 26, 1714 |
daughter Maria received bequest from Bisschop estate |
March 22, 1714 |
Leibniz wrote to Louis Bourguet: "a fable of extravagant proportions" |
May 9, 1714 |
Visited by Dr. Richard Bradley, professor of botany at Cambridge |
June 22, 1714 |
Wrote Letter X of 1714-06-22 (AB 306) to Members of the Royal Society |
July 8, 1714 |
Richard Waller wrote to Leeuwenhoek about how the Royal Society received his observations |
August 17, 1714 |
Andries Jacobs appointed assistant city inspector / wine gauger |
August 19, 1714 |
Richard Waller wrote to Leeuwenhoek about the receipt of his latest letter and the Royal Society's annual recess |
August 21, 1714 |
Wrote Letter XI of 1714-08-21 (AB 307) to Members of the Royal Society |
October 23, 1714 |
niece Maria Jans de Molijn's widowed husband Cornelis Haaxman made will |
October 26, 1714 |
Wrote Letter XII of 1714-10-26 (AB 308) to Members of the Royal Society |
November 4, 1714 |
Wrote Letter XIII of 1714-11-04 (AB 309) to Adriaen van Assendelft |
November 9, 1714 |
Wrote Letter XIV of 1714-11-09 (AB 310) to Members of the Royal Society |
November 17, 1714 |
newphew Adriaan Johannes Swalmius married Adriana de Bries |
November 20, 1714 |
Wrote Letter XV of 1714-11-20 (AB 311) to Members of the Royal Society |
January 1, 1715 |
astronomer Edmond Halley, editor again of Philosophical Transactions from 1715-1719, published only one letter by Leeuwenhoek |
January 1, 1715 |
Published Continuatio Epistolarum (Continuation of the Letters), Letters 53-60 (3rd) |
January 11, 1715 |
Wrote letter of 1715-01-11 (AB 312) to Anthonie Heinsius |
February 27, 1715 |
Appointed executor of Leeuwenvelt estate |
February 28, 1715 |
Anthonie Heinsius wrote (AB 313) to Leeuwenhoek thanking him for his letters and praising his importance |
March 26, 1715 |
Wrote Letter XVI of 1715-03-26 (AB 314) to Antony Cinck |
July 1, 1715 |
Visited by Joachim Georg Reinerding |
July 7, 1715 |
Wrote Letter XVII of 1715-07-07 (AB 315) to Antony Cinck |
August 5, 1715 |
Named in document using Vermeer estate as security |
August 5, 1715 |
Gottfried Leibniz wrote (AB 316) to Leeuwenhoek about sperm and encouraging young people |
September 28, 1715 |
Wrote Letter XVIII of 1715-09-28 (AB 317) to Gottfried Leibniz |
October 29, 1715 |
Gottfried Leibniz wrote (AB 318) to Leeuwenhoek about his observations and teaching his methods |
November 18, 1715 |
Wrote letter of 1715-11-18 (AB 319) to Gottfried Leibniz |
November 18, 1715 |
Wrote Letter XIX of 1715-11-18 (AB 320) to Gottfried Leibniz |
January 1, 1716 |
Paid the familiegeld (estate tax) of 20 gulden |
February 25, 1716 |
Wrote letter of 1716-02-25 (AB 321) to Anthonie Heinsius |
March 3, 1716 |
Wrote Letter XX of 1716-03-13 (AB 322) to Gottfried Leibniz |