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Published Levende Dierkens (Living Animals), Letters 28 - 31, 34 - 36 (2nd)

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January 1, 1696

Boutesteyn published this in Leiden.

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1686 Leeuwenhoek, A. van Levende Dierkens
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January 1, 1686 Published Levende Dierkens (Living Animals), Letters 28 - 31, 34 - 36
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What Leeuwenhoek wrote ...
Wrote Letter 28 of 1679-04-25 (AB 43) to Nehemiah Grew about living little animals in fish, hare, and dogs and his calculation that more than ten times as many living animals come from the milt of a cod as there are people living on the Earth
Wrote Letter 29 of 1680-01-12 (AB 54) to Robert Hooke about the structure of wood and sperm in fish
Wrote Letter 30 of 1680-04-05 (AB 57) to Robert Hooke about the testicles and sperm of a rat and organisms in the gills of oysters and in the sap of vines
Wrote Letter 31 of 1680-05-13 (AB 60) to Thomas Gale about little animals in sap and whether little animals are in the air
Wrote Letter 34 of 1681-11-04 (AB 66) to Robert Hooke about hog bristles, shedding hair, blackheads; living little animals in excrement, horse urine, clay, and gout
Wrote Letter 35 of 1682-03-03 (AB 67) to Robert Hooke about muscle fibres, hair, the cell nucleus in the erythrocytes of fishes, the liver of salmons, beards of oysters, and the structure and growth of oyster shell
Wrote Letter 36 of 1682-04-04 (AB 68) to Robert Hooke
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