Letter, from Thomas Molyneux [to the Royal Society], dated at Leyden
Reference number: EL/M1/103
Date: 13 February 1685
Description
Account of Leeuwenhoek's microscope and how he uses it; Molyneux discusses what he saw when Leeuwenhoek allowed him to use it; some speculation about the large bone (mentioned in EL/M1/102)
Read to the Royal Society on 11 February 1685
- Reference number
- EL/M1/103
- Earliest possible date
- 13 February 1685
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- 4 pages
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- Manuscript
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Thomas Molyneux, Sir; Thomas Molyneux, Letter, from Thomas Molyneux [to the Royal Society], dated at Leyden, 13 February 1685, EL/M1/103, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_m1_103/letter-from-thomas-molyneux-to-the-royal-society-dated-at-leyden, accessed on 14 June 2026
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