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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

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Concerning the war between France and England (declared on 16 January 1666); concerning a new invention of a cannon; concerning 'Journal des Scavans' and 'Philosophical Transactions'

Reference number: EL/I1/4

Stating that there are plans to establish a Royal Academy of Sciences, Paris (actually founded in December 1666); concerning a decomposed body of a very tall woman found in Toulouse; concerning political figures of Germany and Poland

Reference number: EL/I1/5

Concerning a person who makes earthen balls for heating rooms and for cooking; lists members of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Paris; concerning the war between France and England

Reference number: EL/I1/6
1667

Concerning several literary notices

Reference number: EL/I1/7

Recommending Bouillaud and Petit to the Fellowship; discussing political matters on the continent; notification that a Parisian woman had given birth to quadruplets; encloses a note about 'conveniences of life' (see EL/I1/84)

Reference number: EL/I1/8

Concerning the dissection of an ostrich by Bourdelot; concerning the political developments on the continent; concerning literary notices

Reference number: EL/I1/9

Wishes for a copy of the 'History' of the Royal Society; Oldenburg's note reads, 'notices relating to the Academy of Sciences in Paris and Caen'

Reference number: EL/I1/10

Concerning Adrian Auzout's criticisms of Richard Towneley's instrument for measuring distances, which was also queried by other astonomers and mechanics in Paris; encloses a figure from Auzout

Reference number: EL/I1/50

Concerning Adrian Auzout's criticisms of Richard Towneley's instrument for measuring distances, which was also queried by other astonomers and mechanics in Paris

Reference number: EL/I1/51
1668

Concerning academics converting sea water into freshwater; concerning a transfusion of a phrenetic who urinates blood; concerning political events in Europe

Reference number: EL/I1/11

Concerning a man who died whilst having a blood transfusion carried out by Denis; concerns delivery of books; concerning the baptism of the Dauphin

Reference number: EL/I1/12

Concerns delivery of correspondence; concerning the blood transfusion carried out by Denis; concerning political events in Europe

Reference number: EL/I1/13

Concerning literary notices; stating that the man who received a blood transfusion by Denis has died Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/I1/14

Sends a bill of exchange for purchasing books; concerning a blood transfusion in Rome; states that an account of Pecquet's dissection of a beaver will be sent; concerning political events in Europe

Reference number: EL/I1/16

Concerning an English translation of a bible; stating that there are hopes to found a philosophical society in Rome; concerning books for the king's library

Reference number: EL/I1/17

Concerning the Languedoc canal; account of the dissection of an owl's eye; concerning books and journals

Reference number: EL/I1/18

Concerning delivery of books; concerning political events in Europe Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/I1/19

Concerning the delivery of books; concerning political events in Europe Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/I1/20

States that he sends a copy of a letter from Denis to Sorbiere about blood transfusions; account about the dissection of the eyes of a mole, and that he hopes to dissect the eyes of an eagle and sparrow hawk; concerning the grafting of unusual trees

Reference number: EL/I1/21

Concerning delivery of books Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/I1/22

States that there were no new discoveries with the Florentine experiments; states that the Duke of Orleans has begun the engraving of plants and that Marchand is working on the captions; account of the dissection of hawk's eyes at Caen; concerning political events in Europe

Reference number: EL/I1/23

Gives thanks for presents received; displeased that Mr Roberts left so quickly; states that he will send an account of a machine (not specified) from Poland Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/I1/24

Sends Cassini's observations of the comet in March 1668 (see 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 3, no 35, p 683); re-counting Petit's views about Leotaud's 'Magnetologia'; concerning political events in Europe

Reference number: EL/I1/25

Notices concerning the Academy of Paris, in particular about telescopes with figured lenses, about books; Concerning political events in Europe

Reference number: EL/I1/26

Concerns returning the catalogue of medals; concerning the library catalogue of Oxford University; concerning political events in Europe Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/I1/27

Sends a letter by Edme Mariotte; about the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/I1/28

Concerning the delivery of packages, letters and journals Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/I1/29

Concerning delivery of parcels; states that Denis has been attacked following the death of the man who had a blood transfusion; wishing to know if Morland's mathematical machine is similar to the one of Pascal; concerning a Dutchman who has a theory about determining longitude; concerning political and religious events in Europe; observations of an horizontal eclipse

Reference number: EL/I1/30

Concerning a dispute between Dulaurens and Wallis; concerning political and religious events in Europe

Reference number: EL/I1/31

States that the eclipse was observed accurately and that he will send an account; concerning political events in Europe Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/I1/32

Concerning a carpenter who can make a 'flying bridge'; concerning an extraordinary hail storm in Forez; concerning a stone that attracts poison; concerning Morland's calculating machine

Reference number: EL/I1/33

Sends details about the latest eclipse; concerning a German man's theory for determining longitude; states that Mariotte is able to show circulation in plants as well as humans; concerning the dispute between Dulaurens and Wallis; concerning political events in Europe

Reference number: EL/I1/34

Asks for an account of Morland's calculating machine; states that the theory for determining longitude was not exact; details about Japan from a man who works in The Hague; concerning the Port Royal translation of the Bible and other religious events in Europe

Reference number: EL/I1/35

States that a sturgeon has been dissected at Caen; stating that the boy who voided stones was false; concerning political events in Europe Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/I1/36

Concerning a letter about the history of transfusion, which he hopes will be written in Latin; wishes for a copy of Beaune's 'Optics'; states that Adrian Auzout is going to Italy and that if anything is required from that country to write to Justel Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/I1/37

Concerning literary notices; concerning Morland's calculating machine; concerning political events in Europe; concerning damp in a well and the death of four people who were digging a well; concerning the growth of trees and circulation Read to the Royal Society on 30 July 1668

Reference number: EL/I1/38

Concerning the dissection of the sturgeon at Caen

Reference number: EL/I1/39

Wishes for a copy of Malalas; awaiting tracts by Arnauld and Claude about the eucharist Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/I1/40

Concerning the work of Dulaurens which Huygens has questioned; stating that Fermat would like to be elected to the Fellowship; an account of Versailles and that the feast had been postponed for a week

Reference number: EL/I1/41

Concerning circulation in plants; details of a blood transfusion experiment on dogs carried out in Vienna; account of Eustachio Divini's microscope; concerns whether or not the isle of Pines exists (fictional island) Attached is a list of books to be purchased for his friend which belongs with EL/I1/48

Reference number: EL/I1/42

Concerning the building of the Observatory (Paris); concerning the engraving of plants, the portrait of the king and his library; concerning mean proportionals which Dulauren claims to have found; concerning political events in Europe and the threat of renewed war

Reference number: EL/I1/43

Sends an account of the fete at Versailles; concerning exchange of other papers; concerning political events in Europe Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/I1/44

States that a method of extracting salt from sea water has been found, but will not elaborate because a reward is expected; details of three types of Huguenot Church in France; concerning political events in Europe

Reference number: EL/I1/45

Concerning delivery of books; concerning a catalogue of medals; concerning political events in Europe Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/I1/46

Concerning the work of Carcavy and Auzout; hopes to obtain the secret of the vinegar-makers

Reference number: EL/I1/47

Concerning the stone that can draw poison; observations of a fly that is viviparous; sends a list of books to purchase for Lantin (attached to EL/I1/42); concerning political events in Europe

Reference number: EL/I1/48

Sends bill of exchange for books for Lantin; states Reusner's theory of determining longitude is still elusive; concerning political events in Europe Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/I1/49

Concerning Settala's burning 7-foot mirror; concerning the geographical dimensions of Milan; other political notices

Reference number: EL/I1/52

Concerning delivery of books and journals; account of the gallery built along the Charente Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/I1/53

Concerning the production of the painted images in a room; account of the dissection of the chameleon; concerning glass made by turn-lath

Reference number: EL/I1/55

Concerning religious events in Europe; recommends a Swissman from Bern Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/I1/56

Concerning political events in Europe; about the suppression of the 'Chambres' of the Edict of Nantes Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]' Another letter is attached within this one concerning political and religious events in Europe

Reference number: EL/I1/57

Re-counting Auzout's trip to Italy and about the people he had seen eg Malpighi, Fracassati; concerning Settala's lodestone; concerning a granite quarry in Corsica; concerning an account about serpents and palm trees in Egypt; about a boy in Poland who, having lived with bears, was still not speaking after six years

Reference number: EL/I1/58

Concerning the possibility of Cassini moving to Paris; concerning telescopes by Cassini and Auzout and observations of Jupiter; concerning Cardinal de Medici's observations of Jupiter; states that the Academy of Caen is disbanding; concerning political events in Europe

Reference number: EL/I1/59

Stating that there is another theory for determining longitude; concerning the desire to attract clever men to France; concerning proposals for reconciling the religious rift in France

Reference number: EL/I1/60

Concerning Auzout's travels in Italy; concerning reform of the monasteries in France; account of a medal design to commemorate the peace with the Jansenists

Reference number: EL/I1/61

Concerning Auzout's illness at Florence; concerning political events in France; wishes for copies of charters relating to the Abbey of Lys which he believes are located in the Tower of London Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/I1/62

Concerning the suppression of the 'Chambre' following the Edict of Nantes; concerning the multiplication and selling of state offices ('paulette'); concerning the reform of the 'Committimus' Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/I1/63

Concerning Redi's book of insects; sends letters from Lorenzo Magalotti; praise for Christopher Cock's microscope and wishes for another one

Reference number: EL/I1/64

Sends a plan of the observatory, which was a present from Auzout; concerning the dispute between Dulaurens and Wallis Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/I1/88
1669

Concerning the purchase of books and a telescope from Christopher Cock; concerning political events in Europe Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/I1/65

States that Auzout sends some 'Bolognian stone' (phosphorus) to him, but no one knows how to calcine it; political events in Europe, particularly in regard to Sweden, and troops being sent to Crete Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/I1/66
1670

Account of four suns witnessed in the skies near Chateaudun; account of Siamese twins No figure attached

Reference number: EL/I1/67

Account of the Dunkirk machine (type of digger that can remove 12 cubic feet of sand in a single revolution of the wheel); concerning political events in Europe

Reference number: EL/I1/68
1673

Concerning opinions about the work of Denis and styptic liquid; concerning Auzout's Italian trip with information about certain melons called 'Vernini' found at Rome; enquiry from Lantin about the length of a simple pendulum where each beat measures a second Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/I1/69

Account of mountains called Gletcher in Switzerland and, according to a Capucin monk, has rock-crystal

Reference number: EL/I1/70

Concerning purchase and delivery of books; account of the Parian marble statue of Venus found at Rome by Auzout; account of how figures in Bolognian stone can glow in the dark with other notices from Auzout in Italy

Reference number: EL/I1/71
1674

Concerns finding pictures of watermills; encloses a letter from Mr Huet whose has written a tract on the Christian religion; states that a tract on Jewish ceremonies has been translated into French; states that Duke of Lorraine's troops are near Rheinfeld

Reference number: EL/I1/73
1675

Concerning delivery of books; concerning Huygens' improvements to a clockmaker's watch (see EL/I1/75 for further details); concerning observations of Saturn's ring and the satellites of Jupiter to find longitude; concerning political events in the state of Brandenburg

Reference number: EL/I1/72

Stating that Bartholin's son, Casper, has some small instruments which are good for carrying out dissections; concerning Swammderdam's book of natural history; concerning the lens-maker Le Bas; concerns the establishment of a new laboratory at Leyden

Reference number: EL/I1/74

Details of the watch which Huygens believes he invented, although this is contested by a clockmaker (mentioned in EL/I1/72); stating that a Jesuit is about to write an account of his observations of Cayenne; questioning the hardness of steel south of the equator; enquiry about whether Japanese narcissus flowers annually in England; concerning political events in Europe; states that he presenting some manuscripts to Oxford university; discussing the work of antiquarians

Reference number: EL/I1/75

States that he will be receiving a penknife from Germany, which is partly made from gold and iron, with a treatise on how to make it; notices from Tittel in Leipzig eg. his machine for making parabolic lenses has not been successful, that he knows how to liquify amber; concerning his mathemathical instrument which can solve geometrical and arithmetical propositions without using a compass

Reference number: EL/I1/76

Enquiries about the publication of books, about there being an observatory in England and about Flamsteed; stating that an elephant had been purchased for 19,000 pounds; details of a man who appears to walk on water with a machine

Reference number: EL/I1/77

Concerning Abbe Charles lodestone which lifted iron; concerning a manuscript for Oxford university; concerning political matters in Europe

Reference number: EL/I1/78

Concerning political events in Switzerland; concerning an antidote for arsenic poisoning which was given to a dog; enquiry about whether wolves are extinct in England

Reference number: EL/I1/79

Concerning plants - a carnation of 22 inches in circumference which is being sent from Dresden and a black tulip; concerning a case of a difficult childbirth; asks why seeds of sweet majoram were sent and discusses the majoram grown by gardeners in Nimes; states that Picard has been given the chair of mathematics

Reference number: EL/I1/80
1676

Account of a new clock by a man from Geneva; concerning Francis Vernon's account of Athens; concerning political events in Europe

Reference number: EL/I1/81

Concerning political events in Europe; enquiries about books Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/I1/82
1677

Thanks for hospitality shown to Cottereau; concerning the delivery of books; concerning Mlle Delorme and lending money to her Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/I1/83

Concerning information from Leibniz: an eight-foot-tall man in Hanover; new pocket-sized geographical maps printed in Holland; concerning a machine for polishing stones; concerning an edition of St Augustine

Reference number: EL/I1/85

Concerning political events in Europe; enquiries about publication of books

Reference number: EL/I1/86