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  <dc:title>Translation of letters, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek [to the Royal Society]</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Letter to Robert Hooke stating that he received the volumes of  'Philosophical Collections'; further discussion of living organisms in pepper-water and ginger-water (Original is EL/L1/47)
Letter to Constantine Huygens concerning the size of particles of water and the size of micro-organisms to a grain of sand. Mathematical formulae attached. Leeuwenhoek's copy in Dutch is EL/L1/41. </dc:description>
  <dc:date>1680</dc:date>
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