Vierde Vervolg

Author:

Leeuwenhoek, A. van

Publisher:

Delft: Krooneveld

Year:

1694

Full title:

Vierde Vervolg der Brieven, geschreven aan de Wytvermaarde Koninklijke Societeyt in London

Fourth Continuation of the Letters, written to the Widely famed Royal Society in London

Dobell #14: Letters 76 - 83

AB/CL # 126, 129, 131, 133 - 137

pp. ii + 533-730 --

Letters all numbered and continuously paginated. Figures in the text and 6 plates.

Some bundles include the 1695 Register after the Vierde Vervolg.

Figures

Summary: 57 figures in 6 of the 8 letters

date written	AB/CL #	Cole/AvL #	# of figures
1693年10月15日	126	76	20
1693年12月20日	129	77	10
1694年02月24日	133	79	5
1694年03月02日	134	80	6
1694年04月02日	136	82	5
1694年04月30日	137	83	11
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Year	Author	Title
1695	Leeuwenhoek, A. van	Arcana Naturae Detecta

Related events:

Date	Event
May 8, 1693	Richard Waller wrote Letter L-224 to Leeuwenhoek about colors of feathers and univocal generation
January 1, 1694	Published Vierde Vervolg der Brieven (Fourth Continuation of the Letters), Letters 76 - 83
May 11, 1694	Received an honorarium from the city for Vierde Vervolg der Brieven (Fourth Continuation of the Letters)

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Wrote Letter L-228 of 1693年10月15日 to the members of the Royal Society about colors and the life cycle of fleas
Wrote Letter L-231 of 1693年12月20日 to the members of the Royal Society about spiders, lice, and mites
Wrote Letter L-233 of 1694年01月24日 to the members of the Royal Society about tapeworms and salt and sand in cod intestines
Wrote Letter L-236 of 1694年02月24日 to the members of the Royal Society about his experiments with solid phosphorus
Wrote Letter L-239 of 1694年03月02日 to the members of the Royal Society about ear wax and hair, body hair, the amount of sweat secreted from the human body, and the possibility that sperm might penetrate the ovum
Wrote Letter L-240 of 1694年03月19日 to the members of the Royal Society refuting George Garden's ideas in Letter L-227 about the role of the ovary and eggs
Wrote Letter L-241 of 1694年04月02日 to the members of the Royal Society about the tongue of an ox and a pig and the heart of a sheep, ox, duck, chicken and cod
Wrote Letter L-242 of 1694年04月30日 to the members of the Royal Society about his criticisms of Buonanni's theory of spontaneous generation, about mussels, barnacles, shrimp larvae, the eye of a dragon-fly, gnat, fly, and ant, and about ant eggs

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