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  <dc:title>Translation of a letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society</dc:title>
  <dc:description>In response to Martin Lister's objections against Leeuwenhoek's theory on generation, he compares sperm to an apple pip from which a tree grows, ie that sperm have to reproduce
Translation of EL/L3/8</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1699</dc:date>
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