Wrote Letter L-294 of 1696年07月10日 to Nicolaas Witsen about demonstrating the rotation of the earth with the aid of a glass globe filled with water in which wax particles are floating.

Date:
July 10, 1696
Standard reference information
L-number:
L-294
Leeuwenhoek's number:
101
Collected Letters number:
168
Collected Letters volume:
11

Text of the letter in the original Dutch and in English translation from Alle de Brieven. The Collected Letters at the DBNL - De Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren


Leeuwenhoek wrote this letter about demonstrating the rotation of the earth with the aid of a glass globe filled with water in which wax particles are floating.

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