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Letter, from Adrian Auzout to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Paris

Reference number: EL/A/16

Date: 16 July 1666

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Concerns M de la Voye's attempts at sounding the depths of the river Seine at Rouen and wishing to pass on this information to Robert Hooke who was carrying out similar experiments in the Thames

Subject: Surveying/ hydrographic surveying
Read to the Royal Society on 8 August 1666

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EL/A/16
Earliest possible date
16 July 1666
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4 pages

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Adrian Auzout

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Adrian Auzout, Letter, from Adrian Auzout to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Paris, 16 July 1666, EL/A/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_a_16/letter-from-adrian-auzout-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-paris, accessed on 10 December 2024

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