Complete Collected Letters

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Life in Holland

in the 1600's

The Wine Drinker

Feast of the Bean King

The Virginal Lesson

Work in Holland

in the 1600's

Philosophical Transactions, vol. 32, no. 380 published with final two letters by Leeuwenhoek, L-587 and L-588, and Martin Folkes's article about the bequest of 26 microscopes

Date:

January 11, 1724

The date is New Style, which was eleven days ahead of the Old Style date of 31 December 1723 used in London.

Sources

Year	Author	Title
1665	various	Philosophical Transactions
1722	Leeuwenhoek, A. van	De Globulis in Sanguine & in Vini Faecibus. Epistola Posthuma Domini Antonij a Leeuwenhoek, Societatis Regiae Londinensis, Dum Viveret, Sodalis Dignissimi, ad Jacobum Jurin, R. S. Secr.
1722	Leeuwenhoek, A. van	Ejusdem Viri Clarissimi ad Eundem Epistola Posthuma. De Generatione Animalium, & de Palpitatione Diaphragmatis
1723	Hoogvliet, J.	II. Epistola viri doctissimi Johannis Hoogvlietii ad Jacobum Jurin, M. D. R. S. Secr. De epistolis duabus posthumis viri celeberrimi Antonij a Leeuwenhoek, R.S.S.
1723	Folkes, M.	Some account of Mr. Leeuwenhoek's curious Microscopes, lately presented to the Royal Society

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What Leeuwenhoek wrote ...
Wrote Letter L-587 of sometime in August to James Jurin about the similarities between globules in blood and in the lees of wine to argue against Jurin’s hope to discover how blood globules are made
Wrote Letter L-588 of 1723-08-00 to James Jurin about his spermist view of the generation of animals and palpitations of his diaphragm, his final letter