Pieter Rabus wrote Letter L-288 to Leeuwenhoek about dowsing rods
Date:
May 16, 1696
L-number:
L-288
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, which is the version in De Boekzaal van Europe (May and June 1696), pp. 495-500. Dutch text available at ePistolarium
Account of a visit by a dowser and his son, who demonstrated the action of a divining-rod.
