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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

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9 letters from Ignace-Gaston Pardies; 0 letters from Henry Oldenburg

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Concerning translation of Pardies work 'Discours du mouvement'; that his printed comments on a letter by Descartes have been sent

Reference number: EL/P1/73
1672

That delivery of and money for books will be sent through Henry Justel; concerning sound and pitch in a vacuum and work by Boyle and Kircher on this; concerning Hooke's experiments on refractions of different fluids; concerning principles of metaphysics; account of proposed book on 'mechanics'

Reference number: EL/P1/74

Discussing Newton's theory of colour and light Figure in text Enclosed with EL/P1/78 Read to the Royal Society on 18 April 1672

Reference number: EL/P1/75

Concerning delivery of books through Henry Justel; concerning imprisonment of the bookseller Rouchon; praising work by Mr Wallis

Reference number: EL/P1/76

Encloses Pardies' comments on Newton's objections to his theory on colour and light (see EL/P1/79 and EL/N1/38 for Newton's letter); discusssing the mathematics relating to the harmonics of Samuel Moreland's trumpet and the hyperbolic figure created; Pardies hopes that he will be able to speak about the trumpet and its shape after completion of 'Mechanics'

Reference number: EL/P1/77

Repeat of EL/P1/76 which Pardies thought had been lost Concerning delivery of books; imprisonment of Rouchon and rumour that his book had been suppressed by the King; sends comments on Newton's theory of colour and light (see EL/P1/75)

Reference number: EL/P1/78

Concerning Pardies' objections to Newton's theory on colour and light - commenting on Newton's letter (EL/N1/38)

Reference number: EL/P1/79

Concerning delivery of the French Gazette of London and how it should be sent; concerning books on geometry

Reference number: EL/P1/80

Concerning delivery of books and journals; concerning Newton's experiment to show colour and light; that Abbe Picard had brought the manuscripts of Tycho from Denmark so that errors in 'Historia Coelestis' by Curtz could be corrected

Reference number: EL/P1/81