Volume 1

Alle de brieven van Antoni van Leeuwenhoek / uitgegeven, geïllustreerd en van aanteekeningen voorzien door een Commissie van Nederlandsche geleerden.

  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Date:
1939-
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    Addressed to: Henry Oldenburg, Secretary of the Royal Society. Manuscript: not recovered. PUBLISHED IN: Phil. Trans. Vol. VIII. No. 94. London. May 19. 1673. Pp. 6037-6038. A specimen of some Observations made by a Microscope, contrived by M. Leewenhoeck in Holland, lately communicated by Dr. Regnerus de Graaf. (English extract.) Phil. Trans. Vol. VIII. No. 97. London. 6 Oct. 1673. Pp. 6116-6119. The Figures of some of Mr. Leewenhoecks Microscopical Observations, formerly publish’t (in Numb. 94. pp. 6037-6038) together with their Explication. (10 Figures with an English description.) Collection académique, partie étrangère. Tome II. Dijon et Auxerre, 1755. Pp. 381-382. (French extract from the Phil. Trans.) Collection académique, partie étrangère. Tome II. Dijon et Auxerre, 1755. Pp. 388-390. (10 Figures with a French description.) Abhandl. z. Naturgesch., Physik und Oekonomie [Leske]. I, 1. Leipzig, 1779. Pp. 98-99. With 10 Figures. (German extracts from the Phil. Trans.) Abhandl. z. Naturgesch., Physik und Oekonomie [Leske]. I, 2. Leipzig, 1780. Pp. 18-19. (German extracts from the Phil. Trans.) SUMMARY: Observations on the structure and growth of mould (fungi); on the parts of a bee’s mouth, its sting and its eye; on the feelers and legs of a louse and the parts of its mouth. Explanation of the drawings accompanying these observations. FIGURES: The original drawings are lost. Ten of them were published in the Phil. Trans. Vol. VIII. No. 97. 6 Oct. 1673. Tab. I, figs. 1-10. The drawings concerning the louse are wanting. REMARKS : Leeuwenhoeck’s original letter is lost. It was sent to the Royal Society in London by Regn. de Graaf. Its contents are known from the English extract which follows. It was published in the Philosophical Transactions with an introduction by Henry Oldenburg, the secretary of the Royal Society. In its turn the English text was translated into modern Dutch by Prof. Swaen, who also rendered into Dutch the explanations of the figures which L. afterwards sent at the request of the Royal Society.