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"[John] Martyn revealed sheets of the [Philosophical] Transactions [containing Henry Oldenburg's remarks on Robert Hooke's Description of Helioscopes] to Hooke as they were printed. On 8 November [1675] he came to the review of Helioscopes. Hooke was livid. 'Saw the Lying Dog Oldenburg's Transactions,' he wrote in his diary. 'Resolved to quit all employments and seek my health.'"