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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

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Showing 13 letters from 1722–1728

0 letters from James Jurin; 13 letters from Thomas Dereham

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Listing Italian scientists who are willing to pass on information about their work to the Royal Society

Reference number: EL/D2/12

States that he encloses a letter and that three papers by eminent Italian professors are forthcoming

Reference number: EL/D2/13
1724

Hopes that the works of Valisneri have arrived

Reference number: EL/D2/17

States that he is gathering observations of the late eclipse of the sun seen in Italy and has forwarded the work of Eustachius Manfredi of Bologna Read to the Royal Society on 29 October 1724

Reference number: EL/D2/18

States that he sends Bianchini's observations of the solar eclipse from Albano near Rome, who also promises his observations on the transit of Venus Dereham gives his own account of the professors of Pisa observing the eclipse Read to the Royal Society on 29 October 1724

Reference number: EL/D2/19

Still trying to obtain observations of the late eclipse seen in Italy and that Bianchini is confident of getting observations from Genoa. Also informs Jurin that Bianchini, Manfredi, Valisneri and Averani have undertaken to carry out meteorological observations at Pisa, Bologna, Padua and Naples, and will pass these on to the Royal Society.

Reference number: EL/D2/20
1725

States that he sends Vallisneri's account of how he will serve the Royal Society, Beccari's meteorological observations from 1724, and a specimen of a book of antiquities which was at the press Dereham states that inoculating with smallpox has begun in Italy since he published a translation of Maitland's essay and Duglioli of Padua's method of inoculation

Reference number: EL/D2/22
1726

Concerning inoculating with smallpox in Italy and France; states that Bianchini's observations about Venus are mistaken; that he will send inscriptions from the recently discovered 'columbarium sepulchrale' (sepulchral vaults) of the domestics of Augustus and Livia

Reference number: EL/D2/23

Acknowledging receipt of some translated papers on inoculating with smallpox with a general discussion about smallpox in Italy Stating that the meteorological observations of Beccari of Bologna have been sent with some papers by Degg Stating that Bianchini has shown the Duke of Parma his plan of the palace of Nero and that he will send a copy of the 'Columbarium Sepulcrale' (sepulchral vaults) found in Rome Wishes to know the price of the reflecting telescope 'of the new invention in Great Britain' Read to the Royal Society on 20 July 1726

Reference number: EL/D2/26
1727

Sends an observation of the 'Lumen boreale' from Eustachius Manfredi Discusses Bianchini's work on 'Columbarium sepulcrale' (sepulchral vaults) found in Rome and that he is now publishing his work on his discoveries of the 'Domus Aurea' of Nero

Reference number: EL/D2/28

Says that he will send on Bianchini's observations of Venus and his discovery of Nero's palace

Reference number: EL/D2/29

Hopes that the parcels he has sent to the Royal Society during the last year have arrived

Reference number: EL/D2/30
1728

Concerns confusion over the delivery of papers and books between Italy and England

Reference number: EL/D2/31