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Translation of a letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society

Reference number: EL/L3/2

Date: 01 January 1697

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Experiments with magnets; explanations of a meniscus in a glass; observations of patients who have been given 'sympathetic' powder (solution based on copper sulphate) as a medicine
Original is EL/L3/1
Translated extract in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 19, no 227, p 512

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EL/L3/2
Earliest possible date
01 January 1697
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Translation of a letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society, 01 January 1697, EL/L3/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_l3_2/translation-of-a-letter-from-antoni-van-leeuwenhoek-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 16 March 2026

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