Wrote Letter L-231 of 1693-12-20 to the members of the Royal Society about spiders, lice, and mites

Date: 
December 20, 1693
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-231
Leeuwenhoek's number: 
77
Collected Letters number: 
129
Collected Letters volume: 
9

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


Leeuwenhoek wrote this letter about …

daddy-longlegs; pupation of and eggs of daddy-longlegs; anatomy of the legs of daddy-longlegs

reproduction of lice and mites; the anatomy of a louse and structure of a mite; discussion about the life span of a mite