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Translation of a letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Richard Waller, dated at Delft

Reference number: EL/L2/36

Date: 01 January 1692

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Construction of an air pump and experiments with different liquids; finding chervil seeds, red currant seeds and small stones in three different samples of urine; discovery of a hog's hair in the skin of a child; pericarp and seed grain of wheat
Translation of EL/L2/35

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EL/L2/36
Earliest possible date
01 January 1692
Page extent
10 pages
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Manuscript

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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Translation of a letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Richard Waller, dated at Delft, 01 January 1692, EL/L2/36, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_l2_36/translation-of-a-letter-from-antoni-van-leeuwenhoek-to-richard-waller-dated-at-delft, accessed on 24 June 2025

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