Wrote Letter L-372 of 1700-07-09 to Hans Sloane about red blood cells in flounder and salmon, how their oval form changes shape to pass through capillaries, and the sperm of a young cock

Date: 
July 9, 1700
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-372
Leeuwenhoek's number: 
128
Collected Letters number: 
214
Collected Letters volume: 
13

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 flounder. Red blood corpuscles of flounder and salmon, their oval form, and the way they change shape to pass through capillaries. Blood vessels. Sperm of a young cock.