Letter, from Adrian Auzout to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Paris
Reference number: EL/A/16
Date: 16 July 1666
Description
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
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- 16 July 1666
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- 4 pages
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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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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
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Early Letters: A, letters in natural philosophy from correspondents with surname starting 'A'
1664-1736 Reference number: EL/A
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Adrian Auzout
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