Alle de Brieven. The Collected Letters. Volume 3

Author:

Leeuwenhoek, A. van

Volume:

Publisher:

Amsterdam: Swets and Zeitlinger

Year:

1948

Letters 43 [28] – 69 written between 1679 and 1682. Editor, A. Schierbeek.

The links below take you to the 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 (Digital Library for Dutch Letters).

Cole's number, usually the same as Leeuwenhoek's, is in brackets. These are the numbers used by Dobell, who wrote before the Committee of Dutch Scientists began collecting and numbering all of the letters.

Letter 43 [28] of 25 April 1679

Letter 44 of 27 April 1679

Letter 45 of 11 May 1679

Letter 46 of 15 Mayi 1679

Letter 47 of 20 May 1679

Letter 48 of 13 June 1679

Letter 49 of 13 June 1679

Letter 50 of 11 July 1679

Letter 51 of 13 October 1679

Letter 52 of 14 November 1679

Letter 53 of 20 November 1679

Letter 54 [29] of 12 January 1680

Letter 55 of 16 January 1680

Letter 56 of 13 February1680

Letter 57 [30] of 5 April 1680

Letter 58 of 13 May 1680

Letter 59 of 13 May 1680

Letter 60 [31] of 13 May 1680

Letter 61 of 14 June 1680

Letter 62 [32] of 14 June 1680

Letter 63 of 9 August 1680

Letter 64 of 28 September 1680

Letter 65 [33] of 12 November 1680

Letter 66 [34] of 4 November 1681

Letter 67 [35] of (3) March 1682

Letter 68 [36] of 4 April 1682

Letter 69 of 28 July 1682

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Year	Author	Title
1939 - 2018	Leeuwenhoek, A. van	Alle de Brieven. The Collected Letters.
1948	Iterson, G. van	A Discussion of Leeuwenhoek's Drawings and Descriptions Compared to Malpighi and Grew
1948	Dijksterhuis, E. J.	Mathematics in Leeuwenhoeck's letters

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What Leeuwenhoek wrote ...
Wrote Letter L-080 of 1679-04-25 to Nehemiah Grew about living little animals in fish, hare, and dogs and his calculation that more than ten times as many living animals come from the milt of a cod as there are people living on the Earth
Wrote Letter L-081 of 1679-04-27 to Constantijn Huygens about the number of sperm in the milt of the cod
Wrote Letter L-083 of 1679-05-11 to Lambert van Velthuysen about people with gout
Wrote Letter L-084 of 1679-05-15 to Christiaan Huygens to explain more about his observations of little animals
Wrote Letter L-085 of 1679-05-20 to Constantijn Huygens about the number and size of the little animals he was observing
Wrote Letter L-088 of 1679-06-13 to Lambert van Velthuysen about the origin of life and the lack of appreciation by physicians and surgeons
Wrote Letter L-087 of 1679-06-13 to Nehemiah Grew asking him to acknowledge two letters from earlier that year
Wrote Letter L-090 of 1679-07-11 to Lambert van Velthuysen about about the chalk produced by gouty patients and about bladder stones
Wrote Letter L-092 of 1679-10-13 to Robert Hooke to inquire of Hooke why he had not received any correspondence from the Royal Society for months, also discussed bladder stones
Wrote Letter L-095 of 1679-11-14 to Lambert van Velthuysen about gout, salt, and drinking tea
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
Wrote Letter L-097 of 1680-01-12 to Robert Hooke about the structure of wood and sperm in fish
Wrote Letter L-098 of 1680-01-16 to Robert Hooke, enclosing a copy of Letter L-085 of 1679-05-20 to Constantijn Huygens about the number and size of little animals
Wrote Letter L-100 of 1680-02-13 to Robert Hooke that being elected a member of the Royal Society would be an honour
Wrote Letter L-102 of 1680-04-05 to Robert Hooke about the testicles and sperm of a rat and organisms in the gills of oysters and in the sap of vines
Wrote Letter L-105 of 1680-05-13 to Robert Hooke to gratefully accept his election as a foreign member of the Royal Society and to acknowledge the receipt of his diploma
Wrote Letter L-106 of 1680-05-13 to Thomas Gale about little animals in sap and whether little animals are in the air
Wrote Letter L-104 of 1680-05-13 to Members of the Royal Society expressing his surprise and gratitude at being elected a member
Wrote Letter L-108 of 1680-06-14 to Thomas Gale about beer, yeast, crab's eyes in vinegar, and little animals reproducing in hermetically-sealed tubes
Wrote Letter L-107 of 1680-06-14 to Robert Hooke, a short cover letter
Wrote Letter L-109 of 1680-08-09 to Robert Hooke to ask whether the Royal Society received previous letters and to promise further investigations into the formation of blood
Wrote Letter L-110 of 1680-09-28 to Thomas Gale to inquire whether Letter 107 of 1680-06-14 had arrived
Wrote Letter L-111 of 1680-11-12 to Robert Hooke about blood globules, lees of wine, globules in rain water, milk vessels, reproduction, little animals in the male seed of animals, and their incomprehensible smallness
Wrote Letter L-114 of 1681-11-04 to Robert Hooke about hog bristles, shedding hair, blackheads; living little animals in excrement, horse urine, clay, and gout
Wrote Letter L-116 of 1682-03-03 to Robert Hooke about muscle fibres, hair, the cell nucleus in the erythrocytes of fishes, the liver of salmons, beards of oysters, and the structure and growth of oyster shell
Wrote Letter L-119 of 1682-04-04 to Robert Hooke about the structure of the muscle tissue of lobsters and shrimps.
Wrote Letter L-120 of 1682-07-28 to Robert Hooke, now lost, asking whether figures of the anatomy of wood in Letter L-097 of 12 January 1680 will be published in print

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