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Published Onsigtbare Verborgentheden (Invisible Mysteries), Letters 38, 42, 43 (3rd)

Date: 
January 1, 1698

Published by Boutesteyn in Leiden

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Year Author Title
1685 Leeuwenhoek, A. van Onsigtbare verborgentheden
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Related events: 
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January 1, 1685 Published Onsigtbare Verborgentheden (Invisible Mysteries), Letters 38, 42, 43
January 1, 1691 Published Onsigtbare Verborgentheden (Invisible Mysteries), Letters 38, 42, 43 (2nd)
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Cornelis Boutesteyn
Related letters: 
Wrote Letter 38 of 1683-07-16 (AB 72) to Christopher Wren
Wrote Letter 42 of 1684-07-25 (AB 81) to Members of the Royal Society about parts of the brain of several animals, chalk stones of gout, leprosy, and the scales of eels
Wrote Letter 43 of 1685-01-05 (AB 82) to Members of the Royal Society
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