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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

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0 letters from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek; 3 letters from Robert Hooke

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Thanks for sending his paper which was read at the Royal Society, but wants another paper to verify the discovery of small animals in pepper-water. Listed in "Catalogue of Manuscript Letters" as December 1677

01 February 1677 Sender: Robert Hooke , Robert Hooke Reference number: EL/H3/54
1678

Commenting on his paper about small animals in water; discussing muscles and the claws of crustaceans

18 April 1678 Sender: Robert Hooke , Robert Hooke Reference number: EL/H3/57
1682

Discussing reception of Leeuwenhoek's papers at the Royal Society; observations of the fibrous tissue of muscles

10 March 1682 Sender: Robert Hooke , Robert Hooke Reference number: EL/H3/69