Please be aware that some material may contain words, descriptions or illustrations which will not reflect current scientific understanding and may be considered in today's context inaccurate, unethical, offensive or distressing.

Correspondence Explorer

Choose two people to view all letters between them.

Choose the first person

Choose the second person

Showing 3 letters from 1664–1664

0 letters from Robert Moray; 3 letters from Balthazar de Monconys

Robert Moray

Army officer and politician

Born: 1608

Died: 4 July 1673

Elected to the Royal Society Fellowship: 28/11/1660

View all items sent or received by Robert Moray
Balthazar de Monconys

French diplomat

Born: 1611

Died: 1665

View all items sent or received by Balthazar de Monconys

Filter by year

Correspondence map

Interact with the map by zooming, clicking hotspots, and selecting items to see more details. Hit play on the timeline to show correspondence over time.

Robert Moray

Balthazar de Monconys

Details of Monsieur Monconys's travels to Germany and Italy: concerning Gene's experiments to show the electric force of the air; concerning Gene's thermometer; concerning experiments with gold; details of a child who cannot read or write but can answer difficult questions of arithmetic; that Monconys had seen the bones and teeth of an elephant of Hannibal and about flint and black coral in Italy

Reference number: EL/M1/30

Details of Monsieur Monconys's travels to Germany and Italy: concerning Gene's experiments to show the electric force of the air; concerning Gene's thermometer; concerning experiments with gold; details of a child who cannot read or write but can answer difficult questions of arithmetic; that Monconys had seen the bones and teeth of an elephant of Hannibal and about flint and black coral in Italy On the last page are details about a new ship

Reference number: EL/M1/31

Details of Monsieur Monconys's travels to Magdeburg and Italy: concerning Gene's experiments to show the electric force of the air; concerning Gene's thermometer; concerning experiments with gold; details of a child who cannot read or write but can answer difficult questions of arithematic; that Monconys had seen the bones and teeth of an elephant of Hannibal and about flint and black coral in Italy Note at end reads: 'not entred [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/M1/32