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Depending on the Content Type, the Title column in the middle contains:

  • Page - the title of the article
  • Sources - the title of the bibliographic entry
  • Event and Letters - a short description what happened
  • People - the name of the person
  • Locations - the current address of the property

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Content Type Title Taxonomy term(s)
Events First observed little animals in water
Events First stone laid for the tower of the Nieuwe Kerk
Pages Fish viewers
Pages Five types
Pages Floor plan of Gulden Hoofd
People Floris V
Pages Focus
Events Fortunato Vinacessi wrote Letter L-348 of 1698-11-27 to Leeuwenhoek, enclosing letters from Italy about protecting gunpowder from the effects of water
People Francesco Corner
Events Francesco Corner wrote Letter L-443 to thank Leeuwenhoek for Letter L-441 about pearls
People Francis Aston
Sources Francis Aston
Events Francis Aston and Tancred Robinson abruptly resigned as the secretaries of the Royal Society, just a week after they had been reelected
Events Francis Aston promised the Royal Society to translate Letter L-111 of 1680-11-12 into English
Events Francis Aston wrote Letter L-123 of 26 February 1683 about problems translating his letters and opposition to his views
Events Francis Aston wrote Letter L-125 to Leeuwenhoek about new Royal Society officers
Events Francis Aston wrote Letter L-130 to Leeuwenhoek, thanking him for his recent letter and agreeing to admit two Dutch noblemen to a meeting of the Royal Society
Events Francis Aston wrote Letter L-140 to Leeuwenhoek about the translation of a Dutch phrase concerning egg yolks
Events Francis Aston wrote Letter L-146 to Leeuwenhoek about the importance of his work
Events Francis Aston wrote Letter L-148 to Leeuwenhoek to thank him for his letter with observations of the lens of the eye, which was read to the Royal Society and was well-received by them
Events Francis Aston wrote Letter L-151 to Leeuwenhoek that Letter L-150 had not been read by the Royal Society
Events Francis Aston wrote Letter L-153 to inform Leeuwenhoek that his recent letter about wine was favorably received at the Royal Society
Events Francis Aston wrote Letter L-156 to inform Leeuwenhoek that his Letter L-154 about salts was received but had not been read to the Society
Events Francis Aston wrote Letter L-158 of 1685-06-27 to pass along the recommendation by John Hoskyns that Leeuwenhoek examine silkworm eggs
Events Francis Aston wrote Letter L-161 of some time between August and October 1685 to inform Leeuwenhoek that Letter L-159 had been received but not yet read
People Frans Leenderts van Helden
Events Frederick Adriaan van Reede wrote Letter L-249 sometime in early May 1695 that he was pleased with Leeuwenhoek’s observations about the apple-blossom weevil and black flies on apple tree blossoms
Events Frederick Adriaan van Reede wrote Letter L-257 sometime in June 1695 that he was pleased with Leeuwenhoek’s further observations about garden pests
Events Frederick Adriaan van Reede wrote Letter L-299 of 1696-08-23, a "welcome letter"
People Frederik Adriaan van Reede van Renswoude
People Frederik Ruysch
Sources Fresh Views of 17th-Century Discoveries by Hooke and van Leeuwenhoek
Sources From Dilettante To Diligent Experimenter
Pages Front room and office/laboratory on upper floor
Pages Front room on ground floor
Pages Frontispieces

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