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Life in Holland

Author:

Ruestow, E. G.

Journal:

Journal of the History of Biology

Volume:

17:2, 225-248.

Year:

1984

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Leeuwenhoek's Cabinet of Wonders
Spontaneous generation

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What Leeuwenhoek wrote ...
Wrote Letter L-255 of 1695-05-23 to Maarten Etienne van Velden about the impossibility of small flies being generated from the body of a big dead caterpillars, again refuting the theory of spontaneous generation
Wrote Letter L-264 of 1695-08-15 to Frederik Adriaan van Reede about oysters and their larvae, repudiating spontaneous generation