Alle de Brieven. The Collected Letters. Volume 4

Author:

Leeuwenhoek, A. van

Volume:

Publisher:

Amsterdam: Swets and Zeitlinger

Year:

1952

Letters 70 [37] – 81 [42] written between 1683 and 1684. Editor, A. Schierbeek

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 70 [37] of 22 January 1683

Letter 71 of 20 May 1683

Letter 72 [38] of 16 July 1683

Letter 73 of 22 July 1683

Letter 74 of 2 September 1683

Letter 75 of 16 September 1683

Letter 76 [39] of 17 September 1683

Letter 77 of 30 September 1683

Letter 78 of 14 October 1683

Letter 79 [40] of 28 December 1683

Letter 80 [41] of 14 April 1684

Letter 81 [42] of 25 July 1684

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What Leeuwenhoek wrote ...
Wrote Letter L-122 of 1683-01-22 to Christopher Wren about the function of the ovary, muscles of insects, drinking tea and mild beer, erythrocytes, and a theory on the formation of blood
Wrote Letter L-126 of 1683-05-20 to Anthonie Heinsius about generation and about the circulation of the blood, which he intends to communicate in a letter to the Royal Society
Wrote Letter L-128 of 1683-07-16 to Christopher Wren about the procreation of frogs, sperm in fowl's egg, reproduction of rabbits, little animals in frog intestines, a theory about digestion in humans and fish, and blood
Wrote Letter L-129 of 1683-07-22 to Anthonie Heinsius about Heinsius's reactions to an earlier letter
Wrote Letter L-132 of 1683-09-02 to Anthonie Heinsius, requesting his opinion of observations in Letter L-128
Wrote Letter L-134 of 1683-09-16 to Anthonie Heinsius about whether Heinsius would like a copy of his speculations on the living organisms in mouths and on the structure of the skin
Wrote Letter L-135 of 1683-09-17 to Francis Aston about saliva, nasal hairs and blackheads, skin, pores, calluses, and cleaning teeth; the discovery of bacteria in tartar
Wrote Letter L-136 of 1683-09-30 to Anthonie Heinsius, a note accompanying a copy of Letter L-135
Wrote Letter L-141 of 1683-10-14 to Anthonie Heinsius in reply to his recent Letter L-139
Wrote Letter L-144 of 1683-12-28 to Francis Aston about human skin and its diseases, the intestines, the effects of vinegar, the intestinal wall and peristalsis, and an experiment to demonstrate the adsorption of food nutrients in the intestines.
Wrote Letter L-147 of 1684-04-14 to Francis Aston about lenses and corneas, the function of eye-lids, the involuntariness of blinking, the optic nerve, and the skin of Moors
Wrote Letter L-150 of 1684-07-25 to Members of the Royal Society about parts of the brain of several animals, chalk stones of gout, leprosy, and the scales of eels

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