August 11, 1674 |
Visited by Holger Jacobæus, the Bartholin brothers, and Arent Seyn; described as "ingenious but illiterate" |
August 15, 1674 |
Visited by Johannes Swammerdam |
July 1, 1676 |
Visited by Christiaan Huygens during the summer; he saw the little animals in Leeuwenhoek's infusions |
November 18, 1676 |
Visited by Gottfried Leibniz |
September 11, 1677 |
Visited by Hennig Brand, the Hamburg merchant who discovered phosphorus |
May 1, 1679 |
Visited by James, Duke of York, and "several high personages" |
January 1, 1682 |
Visited by Cornelis Bontekoe |
January 1, 1683 |
Visited by Marie-Anne Mancini, Duchess of Bouillon and others |
February 5, 1685 |
Visited by Thomas Molyneux on behalf of the Royal Society |
June 22, 1685 |
Visited by John Locke |
October 1, 1685 |
Visited by Karl von Hessen-Kassel and Willem Meester sometime in October |
December 1, 1685 |
Visited by De Saingermain, who later called Leeuwenhoek a "Magus" |
November 5, 1686 |
Visited by Jacob Gronovius |
January 1, 1692 |
William Molyneaux wrote about a visit to Leeuwenhoek |
June 28, 1695 |
Visited by Johann Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg, Elector Palatine, his wife and his mother |
April 1, 1697 |
Visited by Johann Anderson, a German lawyer and natural scientist |
June 1, 1697 |
Visited by Sir Francis Child, an English banker and politician |
October 15, 1697 |
Visited by Tsar Peter the Great of Russia |
January 1, 1700 |
Visited (possibly) by Hans Sloane, his editor at Philosophical Transactions |
March 30, 1705 |
Visited by Pieter Valkenier |
October 1, 1705 |
Visited by Francesco Cornaro |
March 7, 1706 |
Visited by Govert Bidloo |
July 7, 1707 |
Visited by Gilbert and Thomas Burnet |
January 2, 1710 |
Visited by Alexander Stuart and two Scots gentlemen |
November 27, 1710 |
Visited by John Farrington |
December 4, 1710 |
Visited by Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach: "more of ingenuity than foundation" |
May 9, 1714 |
Visited by Dr. Richard Bradley, professor of botany at Cambridge |
July 1, 1715 |
Visited by Joachim Georg Reinerding |
September 1, 1716 |
Visited by Hermaan Boerhaave, Frederik Ruysch, and Abraham van Bleiswijk |
October 1, 1716 |
Visited again by Joachim Georg Reinerding |
July 15, 1723 |
Visited by Matthew Raper |