Wrote Letter L-423 of 1704-07-22 to the members of the Royal Society about muscle fibers of whales, the structure of the eyes' lenses of whales and cod, and his theory about why fish have no eyelids

Date: 
July 22, 1704
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-423
Collected Letters number: 
249
Collected Letters volume: 
15

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 muscle fibers of whales, the structure of the eyes' lenses of whales and cod, and his theory about why fish have no eyelids

On the muscle fibres of a whale. Description of the structure of the lens of the eye of a whale and of a whiting. On the presence or absence of eyelids among fishes.

Muscle fibres of whales. Crystalline humour of the eye of a whale. Eyes of cod and whiting. Theory why fish do not have eyelids.