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The Collected Letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek - Volume 16 (Hardcover, New)
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The Collected Letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek - Volume 16 (Hardcover, New)
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In volume XVI of The Collected Letters of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek,
25 letters of Van Leeuwenhoek have been included, all of them
written from July 1707 to June 1712. The letters were written to
six distinct addressees. The larger part was addressed to the Royal
Society in London in general (sixteen letters); and to three of its
fellows in particular: John Chamberlayne (280, and 281), who
translated the letters of Van Leeuwenhoek for the Royal Society,
Hans Sloane (297), and James Petiver (287). Five letters were
addressed to Anthonie Heinsius, Grand Pensionary of Holland, who
was interested in Van Leeuwenhoek's work until his death in 1720.
The correspondence collected in this volume shows the lasting
interest evinced by the Royal Society in Van Leeuwenhoek's work.
This would change in later years. None of the letters printed here
were published in Leeuwenhoek's own time, either in Dutch or in
Latin. Fifteen letters to the Royal Society were more or less
completely published in an English translation in the Society's
Philosophical Transactions. This was also done with two letters to
Chamberlayne (280, and 281), and the letter to Petiver (287). The
letters to Heinsius, Sloane, and Letter 285 have not been published
earlier. Of all letters published here the Dutch texts are now for
the first time available in a printed edition. Every volume in the
series contains the texts in the original Dutch and an English
translation. The great range of subjects studied by Van Leeuwenhoek
is reflected in these letters: instruments to measure water;
pulmonary diseases; experiments relating to the solution of gold
and silver; salt crystals and grains of sand; botanical work, such
as duckweed and germination of orange pips; descriptions on
protozoa; blood; spermatozoa; and health and hygiene, for example
and harmfulness of tea and coffee and the benefits of cleaning
teeth.
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