Wrote Letter L-365 of 1700-01-14 to Nicolaes Boogaert van Belois about blood circulation in lizard legs, the way a lizard and a scorpion react to one another, the scorpion's eyes, pincers, and sting and the muscle fibres in that sting
Date:
January 14, 1700
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 blood circulation in a lizard's legs, the way a lizard and a scorpion react to one another, the sting of a scorpion, the muscle fibres in that sting, the eyes and the pincers of a scorpion.