Wrote Letter L-270 of 1695-09-10 to Pieter Rabus about his attempt to breed maggots with his own ear-wax as food and a movement in his ear due to the vibration of a little hair against the ear-drum

Date: 
September 10, 1695
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-270
Leeuwenhoek's number: 
94a
Collected Letters number: 
156
Collected Letters volume: 
11

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 about his attempt to breed maggots with his own ear-wax as food; a movement in his ear is due to the vibration of a little hair against the ear-drum