Wrote Letter XXVI of 1716-06-22 (AB 325) to Jan Gerard Kerkherdere

Date: 
June 22, 1716
Standard reference information
Cole's number: 
216
AB/CL number: 
325
AB/CL volume: 
18

Text of the letter in the original Dutch and in English translation in Alle de Brieven / The Collected Letters is not yet available at the DBNL - De Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren.

The original manuscript is lost.

Leeuwenhoek continued his investigations of how plants germinate and begin to grow. He wrote:

my insignificant work ... originates merely from the propensity I have to investigate the first beginnings of all created things.