Wrote letter of 1723-08-00 (AB 375) to James Jurin about the similarities between globules in blood and in the lees of wine to argue against Jurin’s hope to discover how blood globules are made
Standard reference information Leeuwenhoek's summary Leeuwenhoek did not publish any letters after 1718 in book form with his own summaries. The summary below comes from Alle de Brieven / Collected Letters .
In this posthumous letter, L. discusses the similarities between globules in blood and in the lees of wine to argue against Jurin’s hope to discover how blood globules are made.
Reception in London The letter was translated into Latin by JOHANNES HOOGVLIET and sent to London by him under his cover letter Letter ### of 9 September 1723, in this volume; Royal Society, Early Letters, H3.112. Thus, there was no contemporary English translation made.
This letter and Letter 3## were sent together; neither were dated or signed, so HOOGVLIET may have translated them after L. died.
This letter was read during the meeting of the Royal Society on 21 November 1723; Royal Society, Journal Book Original, vol. 13, p. 314; Letter Book Original, 15.84, p. 320.
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