Letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society, dated at Delft
Reference number: EL/L3/71
Date: 13 December 1704
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Observations of rock crystals; observations of fossilised ammonite and crinoids; analysing the constitution of the fossil by heating; observations of dice
Read to the Royal Society on 31 January 1705
Original figures do not exist
Partial English translation see EL/L3/71a
Transcribed and translated in 'Alle de brieven van Antoni van Leeuwenhoek', edited, illustrated and annotated by Committee of Dutch Scientists, vol 15, p 87
English translation printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 24, no 294, p 1774
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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society, dated at Delft, 13 December 1704, EL/L3/71, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_l3_71/letter-from-antoni-van-leeuwenhoek-to-the-royal-society-dated-at-delft, accessed on 14 February 2026
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