Works Part III

 Dutch version:

63 letters written between September 1694 and April 1702

# 84 - 146

 Latin version:

39 letters written between April 1697 and April 1702

# 108 - 146

 

Year Dobell # Short Title
Publisher
 # of ltrs
AvL #
1696

15. Vijfde Vervolg

 Krooneveld 13
84 - 96
1697

16. Sesde Vervolg

 Krooneveld 11
97 - 107
1702

18. Sevende Vervolg

 Krooneveld 39
108 - 146
1719 27. Epistolae ad Societatem Langerak 39 108 - 146

All of the letters in Epistolae ad Societatem -- Letters 108-146 -- had been written by 1702, but they were not published until 1719. In the meantime, Leeuwenhoek wrote the 46 letters in Send-Brieven -- Letters I-XLVI -- and published them in Dutch 1718. It wasn't until the following year that he published the two volumes in Latin, Epistolae ad Societatem -- Letters 108-146 -- and Epistolae Physiologicae -- Letters I-XLVI. Why did Leeuwenhoek wait 17 years to publish Epistolae ad Societatem? Why, in the same year, did J. A. Langerak publish the one in Leiden and Adriaan Beman the other in Delft?

Summary of Characteristics

  Tp Sum Fr D R Pag running headers N S F P In
15. Vijfde y n y 5 n viii + 1-172 + ix v: Antoni van Leeuwenhoeks
r: Vijfde Vervolg der Brieven, enz.		 y y  48 5? 9
16. Sesde y n n 2 n iv + 173-342 + x v: Antoni van Leeuwenhoeks
r: Sesde Vervolg der Brieven, enz.		 y y 32   10
17. Sevende y n n 4 n vi + 1-452 + xxii v: Antoni van Leeuwenhoeks
r: Sevende Vervolg der Brieven, enz.		 y y  114 24 22
27. Epistolae
 y n n n 14 xvi + 1-429 + x v: Continuatio
r: Arcanorum Naturae.		 y y   18? 10

 

Notes for the table:

Tp - separate title page - yes/no

Sum - summary on title page - yes/no

F - frontispiece - number of pages

 D - dedication - number of pages of dedications, poems, and notes to the reader in the front matter

 R - register - summaries of letters in the front matter, in one volume including errata - yes/no

 Pag - pagination - continuous or separate - Roman numerals for front matter and indices; Arabic for text

 N - numbered - each letter identified in the text by the number Leeuwenhoek gave it - yes/no

 S - summary - each letter preceded by a summary of its contents - yes/no

 F - number of figures, in the text and on the plates

 P - number of single-page or fold-out plates on unnumbered pages

 In - index - number of pages, including errata, if any

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