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            Christiaan Huygens           | 
                  
            July 8, 1695           | 
                  
            friend and colleague           | 
              
          
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            Christopher Wren           | 
                  
            February 25, 1723           | 
                  
            correspondent at the Royal Society           | 
              
          
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            Edmond Halley           | 
                  
            January 17, 1742           | 
                  
            editor           | 
              
          
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            Francesco Corner           | 
                  
            January 1, 1734           | 
                  
            visitor and correspondent           | 
              
          
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            Francis Aston           | 
                  
            January 1, 1715           | 
                  
            correspondent at the Royal Society           | 
              
          
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            Frederik Ruysch           | 
                  
            February 22, 1731           | 
                  
            visitor and fellow anatomist           | 
              
          
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            Gottfried Leibniz           | 
                  
            November 14, 1716           | 
                  
            visitor and supportive correspondant           | 
              
          
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            Govert Bidloo           | 
                  
            March 30, 1713           | 
                  
            fellow anatomist and correspondent           | 
              
          
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            Hans Sloane           | 
                  
            January 11, 1753           | 
                  
            visitor and editor           | 
              
          
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            Henry Oldenburg           | 
                  
            September 5, 1677           | 
                  
            first editor, translator, and publisher; founding member of the Royal Society           | 
              
          
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            Herman Boerhaave           | 
                  
            September 23, 1738           | 
                  
            visitor and correspondent           | 
              
          
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            Isaac Newton           | 
                  
            March 20, 1726           | 
                  
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            James Jurin           | 
                  
            March 29, 1750           | 
                  
            correspondent and editor at the Royal Society           | 
              
          
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            John Aubrey           | 
                  
            June 7, 1697           | 
                  
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            John Chamberlayne           | 
                  
            November 2, 1723           | 
                  
            translator into English for publication in Philosophical Transactions           | 
              
          
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            John Somers           | 
                  
            April 26, 1716           | 
                  
            correspondent at the Royal Society           | 
              
          
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            Jonas Moore           | 
                  
            August 27, 1679           | 
                  
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            Marcello Malpighi           | 
                  
            November 29, 1694           | 
                  
            professional peer; they were aware of and reacted to each other's work           | 
              
          
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            Martin Lister           | 
                  
            February 2, 1712           | 
                  
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            Nehemiah Grew           | 
                  
            March 25, 1712           | 
                  
            professional colleague at the Royal Society; they wrote about each other's work           | 
              
          
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            Nicolaas Witsen           | 
                  
            August 10, 1717           | 
                  
            correspondent           | 
              
          
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            Richard Waller           | 
                  
            January 1, 1715           | 
                  
            correspondent and editor at the Royal Society           | 
              
          
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            Robert Boyle           | 
                  
            December 31, 1691           | 
                  
            correspondent           | 
              
          
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            Robert Hooke           | 
                  
            March 3, 1703           | 
                  
            most important supporter           | 
              
          
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            Robert Plot           | 
                  
            April 30, 1696           | 
                  
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            Samuel Pepys           | 
                  
            May 26, 1703           | 
                  
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            Thomas Gale           | 
                  
            April 7, 1702           | 
                  
            correspondent at the Royal Society           | 
              
          
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            William Brouncker           | 
                  
            April 5, 1684           | 
                  
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            William Croone           | 
                  
            October 12, 1684           | 
                  
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