Translated extract of a letter, from Adrian Auzout to Henry Oldenburg

Reference number: EL/A/19

Date: 28 December 1666

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Concerning Auzout's new methods of taking the diameters of the planets; concerning Burattini's telescopic lenses; some details about the controversy between Auzout and Hevelius; hopes for observing the horizontal eclipse of the moon
This is a partial translation of the letter (EL/A/17) by Oldenburg
Read to Royal Society on 9 January 1667

Reference number: EL/A/19
Earliest possible date: 28 December 1666
Page extent: 4 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Adrian Auzout

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Adrian Auzout, Translated extract of a letter, from Adrian Auzout to Henry Oldenburg, 28 December 1666, EL/A/19, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_a_19/translated-extract-of-a-letter-from-adrian-auzout-to-henry-oldenburg, accessed on 09 October 2024

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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
1613-1740 Reference number: EL
Early Letters: A, letters in natural philosophy from correspondents with surname starting 'A'
1664-1736 Reference number: EL/A

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