Wrote Letter L-240 of 1694-03-19 to the members of the Royal Society refuting George Garden's ideas in Letter L-227 about the role of the ovary and eggs

Date: 
March 19, 1694
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-240
Leeuwenhoek's number: 
81
Collected Letters number: 
135
Collected Letters volume: 
10

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

Leeuwenhoek wrote this letter that contained a Dutch translation of an English letter from George Garden, dated 24 August 1693, who argued that the egg and ovaries play an important role in reproduction; Leeuwenhoek disagreed with this view and transcribed his reply to Garden