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RefNoEL/L1/77a
LevelItem
TitleTranslated extract of a letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society
CreatorLeeuwenhoek; Antoni van (1632-1723); tradesman and microscopist
Datend
DescriptionObservations of the seeds of cotton, palm or date stones, cloves, nutmeg, gooseberries, currants, tulips; observations of the skin on the hand, and sweat pores, the crystalline humour and optic nerve of a horse, the gall and scales of fish
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 17, no 205, p 949
LanguageEnglish
Extent9p
FormatManuscript
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1693.0073
URLDescriptionAlso available on Early Modern Letters Online
URLhttp://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/a19b14f9-6207-4dd0-847f-a95f0d2af889
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NA8438van Leeuwenhoek; Antoni (1632 - 1723); tradesman and microscopist1632 - 1723
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