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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

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Showing 14 letters from 1728–1730

6 letters from William Rutty; 8 letters from Thomas Dereham

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Asks Rutty to pass on the papers from Eustachio Manfredi of Bologna to William Derham States that Bianchini has finished his globe of Venus and gives his own observations of the planet

Reference number: EL/D2/32

Concerns the delivery of books and papers between Italy and England Says that he will publish abstracts from recent 'Philosophical Transactions' in 'Giornale de Letterati'

Reference number: EL/D2/33

Thanks for parcels of books; thanks for correspondences of Cyrillus, Bianchini, Rizzetti sent by Dereham; that six books had been sent to the Society

Reference number: EL/R2/7
1729

Concerns papers and books to be delivered between Italy and England

Reference number: EL/D2/35

Concerns papers and books to be delivered between Italy and England

Reference number: EL/D2/36

Says that he is sending boxes of fire-flies and cicadas (gives an account of the latter); gives observations of the total eclipse of the moon and of a hurricane in Ferrara; hopes to give an account of a woman who sleeps a lot

Reference number: EL/D2/37

Encloses observations of the total eclipse of the moon seen in Bologna by Manfredi, and another from Rome Sends a letter and copies of Manfredi's little work on the motion of the fixed stars Gives an account of curing fevers by drinking iced water

Reference number: EL/D2/38

Says that he will send the forty chronological tables of China and a treatise by Giuntini on earthquakes

Reference number: EL/D2/39

That Manfredi had been elected to the Fellowship and notified by letter dated 18 November 1728; discussing papers on astronomy that he was sending

Reference number: EL/R2/16

That the Society had received Bishop Fouquet's chronological Chinese tables, Bianchin's globe of Venus and Valisnieri's treatise; wishes to know if Manfredi had received the letter of his election to the Fellowship; wishes to send treatise on the motion of the moon

Reference number: EL/R2/22

Sends papers on urinary passages for Valisnieri and Morgagni; also sends Machin's laws of the moon's motion; discusses Bianchini's globe of Venus; encloses letter for Cyrillus

Reference number: EL/R2/28

Thanks for letters; wishes for further information about a sleeping woman at Rome

Reference number: EL/R2/31
1730

Encloses an account by Leprotti of the woman who sleeps a lot, and gives observations of the 'aurora borealis' in 1729 Says that Machin's laws of the motion of the moon have been received favourably in Italy

Reference number: EL/D2/40

Thanks for recent letters; asks Dereham to thank Manfredi for his correspondence and to pass on Rutty's paper on urinary passages to him; concerning delivery of parcels

Reference number: EL/R2/37