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Details of items bequeathed to the Royal Society - microscope, Indian cabinet of specimens (listed)
Read to the Royal Society on 23 January 1723

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RBO/11/107
Earliest possible date
1723
Page extent
8 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Account of Leeuwenhoek's microscopes and how he made them by Martin Folkes, 1723, RBO/11/107, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_11_107/account-of-leeuwenhoeks-microscopes-and-how-he-made-them-by-martin-folkes, accessed on 14 November 2024

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