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

Date: 
April 14, 1684
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-147
Leeuwenhoek's number: 
41
Collected Letters number: 
80
Collected Letters volume: 
4

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.

The original manuscript, written and signed by Leeuwenhoek, is preserved at the Royal Society (MS. 1900. L 1. 71.).