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87 Ibid., p.26.
88 I owe this discovery to C.H. Wilson, ‘Who captured New Amsterdam?’, English Historical Review 72 (1957), 469–74: ‘Fortunately our answer [to the question of whether Holmes was involved in the capture of New Amsterdam in 1664] need not rest on surmise, for we have Holmes’s own account of his movements during the months when he is supposed by some historians to have been on his way to America, and capturing New Amsterdam [Captain Robert Holmes his Journalls of Two Voyages into Guynea in his M[ajesty’]s Ships The Henrietta and the Jersey, Pepys Library Sea MSS. No. 2698]’ (pp. 472–3).
89 For Holmes’s buccaneering style, see Captain Robert Holmes his Journalls of Two Voyages…, p.168.
90 See Patterson, ‘Pendulums of Wren and Hooke’, pp.302–5.
91 Huygens, Oeuvres Complètes 7, pp.323–4. Bruce’s response to receiving his own complimentary copy of Huygens’s Horologium Oscillatorium was similarly critical. See Leopold, ‘Clockmaking in Britain and the Netherlands’, p.41.
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1 I am extremely grateful to Dr Jan Broadway for this reference.
2 On the history of discovery and development of the microscope in the Netherlands see E.C. Ruestow, The Microscope in the Dutch Republic: The Shaping of Discovery (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), and S. Alpers, The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1983).
3 It received the imprimatur of the Royal Society on 23 November 1664.
4 For a fuller version of this episode see L. Jardine, ‘Robert Hooke: A reputation restored’, in M. Cooper et al. (eds), Robert Hooke: Tercentennial Studies (Ashgate, 2006), pp.247–58.
5 13 February 1665. Huygens, Oeuvres Complètes 5, p.236.
6 Ibid., p.245.
7 On Huygens’s annotations of his copy see M. Barth, ‘Huygens at work: Annotations in his rediscovered personal copy of Hooke’s “Micrographia”’, Annals of Science 52 (1995), 601–13.
8 Huygens, Oeuvres Complètes 5, p.240.
9 See the letter of thanks sent by Auzout to Sir Constantijn Huygens. I accept McKeon’s redating of this letter: R.K. McKeon, Établissement de l’Astronome de Précision et Oeuvre d’Adrien Auzout (2 fascicules), Thèse présentée pour le Doctorat du Troisième Cycle (Paris, 1965).
10 5 June 1665 (n.s.). Huygens archive, Leiden.
11 Auzout proposed setting up the Observatory in the dedicatory letter to Louis XIV which prefaced his L’Ephéméride du comète de 1664 (1665).
12 Hooke, Micrographia, fol. e1v.
13 Such a printed report is equivalent, in the period, to a priority claim, preceding an application for patent.
14 A. Auzout, Lettre à Monsieur l’Abbé Charles, sur la Ragguaglio di nuove Osservationi da Giuseppe Campani (Paris, 1665). Campani’s book was reviewed in the first issue of the Philosophical Transactions in London in March 1665.
15 Auzout and the Royal Society (i.e. Oldenburg) had been corresponding since early January 1665, following the publication of Auzout’s L’Ephéméride du comète. See A.R. and M.B. Hall (eds and trans.), The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, 13 volumes: vols 1–9 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1965–73); vols 10–11 (London: Mansell, 1975–76); vols 12–13 (London: Taylor & Francis, 1986) 2, pp.341; pp.359–68. The Journal des sçavans began publication in January 1665, but ceased after three months. It began again in January 1666. Thus Auzout’s published letters may well have been intended for publication in the Journal, where indeed a review of the Campani (probably by Auzout) was eventually published in January 1666.
16 See Oldenburg, Correspondence 2, pp.383–410.
17 Ibid., p.384. See also Preface fol. b1r.
18 Ibid., p.420.
19 Ibid., p.429.
20 M. Hunter, A. Clericuzio, and L.M. Principe, The Correspondence of Robert Boyle, 6 vols (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001) 2, p.387.
21 Moray also explained to Huygens that Hooke was having to put a lot of effort into preparing the lectures he had undertaken