Sesde Vervolg

Author:

Leeuwenhoek, A. van

Publisher:

Delft: Krooneveld

Year:

1697

Full title

Sesde Vervolg der Brieven, geschreven aan verscheide Hooge Standspersonen en Geleerde Luijden

Sixth Continuation of the Letters, written to various High-standing Persons and Learned People

Dobell #16: Letters 97 - 107

It contained eleven letters written between late December 1695 and the end of September 1696.

AB/CL #: 163, 164, 165, 167, 168, 169, 170, 172, 174, 176, 177

The letters were addressed to:

Hendrik van Bleyswijk, 3 letters
Frederik Adriaan Van Reede, 3 letters
Nicolaas Witsen, 3 letters
Members of the Royal Society, 1 letter
Anthonie Heinsius, 1 letter

Pagination: iv + 173-342 + x (Blad-wyser & Drukfouten)

The front matter (left sidebar) had:

Title page
Two-page poem from Rabus

Poem

Op het Sesde Vervolg der Brieven van den Heere Antoni van Leeuwenhoek aan de Beminnaars der Regtschape Natuur-kunde.

On the Sixth Continuation of the Letters of Mr. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Lovers of Knowledge of Nature.

by Pieter Rabus

dated 1696

[transcription and translation to come]

Letters

The letters were numbered and continuously paginated. Each was preceded by a summary of the contents.

Figures

The 32 figures were on 5 plates, one for each of the five letters that had figures.

Back matter

An index on ten unnumbered pages followed by a one-page errata (which itself has two typos!).

Blad-Wyser
Der voornaemste Zaken in dit Sesde Vervolg der Brieven begrepen.

Page-Pointer
of the chief Topics included in this Sixth Continuation of the Letters.

Drukfouten, dus te verbeteren.

Printing errors, thus improving.

This volume was reviewed by Rabus in Boekzaal, July and August 1697, pp. 119-127.

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Related sources:

Year	Author	Title
1692 - 1702	Rabus, P. ed.	De Boekzaal van Europe

Related events:

Date	Event
August 18, 1693	Pieter Rabus wrote Letter L-226 to Leeuwenhoek praising his accomplishments and including a laudatory poem
November 6, 1696	Received an honorarium from the city for the Sixth Continuation of the Letters
November 10, 1696	A gentleman in Brabant wrote Letter L-308 of sometime in November 1696 to Leeuwenhoek about his long-held Copernican ideas
January 1, 1697	Published Sesde Vervolg der Brieven (Sixth Continuation of the Letters), Letters 97 - 107
February 4, 1697	Maarten Etienne van Velden wrote Letter L-313 to Leeuwenhoek about receiving Sesde Vervolg der Brieven

Related letters:

What Leeuwenhoek wrote ...
Wrote Letter L-283 of 1695-12-28 to Hendrik van Bleyswijk about herring, their stomach worms, the food in herring stomachs, and how small fish like herring catch food
Wrote Letter L-285 of 1696-02-20 to Frederik Adriaan van Reede about the anatomy of the body louse, especially the sexual organs and the louse's rapid reproduction, and his opposition to Jonston's and Kircher's observations on lice
Wrote Letter L-287 of 1696-03-08 to Nicolaas Witsen about white mace caused by vermin, a moth from a larva taken from mace, larvae and wings of the merchant grain beetle, and nutmeg; warehouses should be painted to protect spices from vermin
Wrote Letter L-292 of 1696-07-06 to Nicolaas Witsen about his analysis of the mineral that Witsen sent with Letter L-291, ant stings, and lacquer particles on a tree that originate from the tree itself, not from ants
Wrote Letter L-295 of 1696-07-10 to the members of the Royal Society about the circulation of blood in eels; mites, figs, strawberries, and a lobster's leg; a transcription of Christiaan Huygens's Letter L-223 about the reproduction of eels
Wrote Letter L-294 of 1696-07-10 to Nicolaas Witsen about demonstrating the rotation of the earth with the aid of a glass globe filled with water in which wax particles are floating.
Wrote Letter L-296 of 1696-07-16 to Frederik Adriaan van Reede about the male and female sexual organs of oysters and their larvae
Wrote Letter L-300 of 1696-08-26 to Frederik Adriaan van Reede about plant-lice, its embryos and parasitization, black flies and their caterpillars on apple-trees, and English oysters from Zierikzee
Wrote Letter L-302 of 1696-08-29 to Hendrik van Bleyswijk about oak-wood containing beetle larvae, which appeared to be able to feed on wood, and the cause of the differences in quality of oak-wood
Wrote Letter L-304 of 1696-09-12 to Anthonie Heinsius about rennet and curd, chalk and crab's-eyes in vinegar, smoking tobacco to cure toothache, the gall-bladder and omasum of a calf, milk-clotting, and his contradiction of a physician
Wrote Letter L-305 of 1696-09-27 to Hendrik van Bleyswijk about the age of fishes, especially herring, using scales and the structure of greater weever's spine and the painfulness of its sting
Wrote Letter L-307 of 1696-10-30 to a "gentleman in Brabant", a cover letter accompanying a copy of Sesde Vervolg der Brieven
Wrote Letter L-315 of 1697-02-19 to Hans Sloane about sending Sesde Vervolg der Brieven and wanting to receive the latest Philosophical Transactions and the works of Malpighi
Wrote Letter L-316 of 1697-03-25 to the members of the Royal Society as a cover letter to Continuatio Arcanorum Naturae