Alle de Brieven. The Collected Letters. Volume 13

Author:

Leeuwenhoek, A. van

Volume:

Publisher:

Amsterdam: Swets and Zeitlinger

Year:

1994

Letters 207 [122] – 227 [139] written between 1700 and 1701. Editor, L.C. Palm

The links below take you to the 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 (Digital Library for Dutch Letters).

Cole's number, usually the same as Leeuwenhoek's, is in brackets. These are the numbers used by Dobell, who wrote before the Committee of Dutch Scientists began collecting and numbering all of the letters.

Letter 207 [122] of 2 January 1700

Letter 208 [123] of 14 January 1700

Letter 209 [124] of 20 May 1700

Letter 210 [126] of 20 May 1700

Letter 211 [125] of 2 June 1700

Letter 212 [127] of 14 Juni 1700

Letter 213 [133] of 16 June 1700

Letter 214 [128] of 9 July 1700

Letter 215 [129] of 10 July 1700

Letter 216 [130] of 27 July 1700

Letter 217 [131] of 1700

Letter 218 [132] of 7 September 1700

Letter 219 [134] of 26 October 1700

Letter 220 [135] of 25 December 1700

Letter 221 [136] of 28 January 1701

Letter 222 of 9 February 1701

Letter 223 of 8 April 1701

Letter 224 [137] of 15 April 1701

Letter 225 of 21 June 1701

Letter 226 [138] of 21 June 1701

Letter 227 [139] of 21 June 1701

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1939 - 2018	Leeuwenhoek, A. van	Alle de Brieven. The Collected Letters.

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June 8, 1700	Hans Sloane wrote Letter L-369 to Leeuwenhoek about translation problems and parasitic worms

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What Leeuwenhoek wrote ...
Wrote Letter L-364 of 1700-01-02 to Hans Sloane about liver fluke, gnat larvae, circulation of blood in a frog, and little animals in its feces
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
Wrote Letter L-366 of 1700-05-20 to Hendrik van Bleyswijk about the eyes and the sting of a centipede and the reactions of a fly and a lizard to a centipede
Wrote Letter L-367 of 1700-05-20 to Anthonie Heinsius about peat, its composition and origin, how much soil washed into the sea by rivers and effect on sea level compared to amount of soil lost through peat cutting
Wrote Letter L-368 of 1700-06-02 to Frederik Adriaan van Reede about the eyes, mouth parts, food, intestines, and eggs of a shrimp
Wrote Letter L-370 of 1700-06-14 to answer Hans Sloane's Letter L-369 that he has examined the sperm of many animals, but if there is any animal that the Royal Society would like him to investigate, he will do so.
Wrote Letter L-371 of 1700-06-16 to a "Highly Learned Sir" summarizing his earlier investigations of bees, especially the queen bee and her eggs, and of the propagation of other insects
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
Wrote Letter L-373 of 1700-07-10 to Anthonie Heinsius about seeds of plants and parts of invertebrates in peat found near Hellevoetsluis
Wrote Letter L-375 of 1700-07-27 to Hans Sloane about experiments with the larvae of cheese flies received from Sloane a week earlier and the treatment of his wife's toothache with vitriol
Wrote Letter L-376 of 1700-08-01 to "Your Most Serene Highness" about the influence of atmospheric pressure on the level of a water column in a glass tube during a capillary rise; comparison to the column of mercury in a barometer
Wrote Letter L-377 of 1700-09-07 to Hans Sloane to follow up on Letter L-375 to Sloane about fly larvae in cheese
Wrote Letter L-378 of 1700-10-26 to Hans Sloane about black flies on fruit trees, aphids, comparing the parthenogenetic procreation of aphids with sperm, and the development of the pupae of moths
Wrote Letter L-380 of 1700-12-25 to Hans Sloane about the sperm of a ram and his objections to Nicolaas Hartsoeker's claim to have discovered sperm first in 1678 when Leeuwenhoek had written to the Royal Society about sperm in 1677
Wrote Letter L-382 of 1701-01-28 to Hans Sloane about gall on a willow and more about larvae from cheese
Wrote Letter L-383 of 1701-02-09 to Frederik Adriaan van Reede about pores in willow wood and advice for the improvement of peat
Wrote Letter L-384 of 1701-04-08 to the mayors of Delft about his calculation of the difference between the coal measures of Delft and Rotterdam and how to calculate the volume of a pyramid
Wrote Letter L-385 of 1701-04-15 to the members of the Royal Society about sperm from cod, a calculation of its size, and ram and pike sperm
Wrote Letter L-389 of 1701-06-21 to John Chamberlayne about salt crystals in rain-water and notches in a sharpened knife
Wrote Letter L-390 of 1701-06-21 to the members of the Royal Society about spiders, their blood, their silk thread and its structure, their sting, and laying their eggs
Wrote Letter L-391 of 1701-06-21 to Hans Sloane about the claimed qualtity of other people's magnifying glasses, injuries to the cornea, and the impossibility of observing the smallest particles of matter

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