Letter, from Adrian Auzout to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Paris
Reference number: EL/A/20
Date: 29 December 1667
Description
Concerning designs of instruments for accurately measuring the altitude of the sun and moon; wishing to know details of the eclipse of the moon in England; Auzout gives details of his observations of the eclipse
Subject: Astronomy
Read to Royal Society on 9 January 1668
- Reference number
- EL/A/20
- Earliest possible date
- 29 December 1667
- Page extent
- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Adrian Auzout, Letter, from Adrian Auzout to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Paris, 29 December 1667, EL/A/20, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_a_20/letter-from-adrian-auzout-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-paris, accessed on 04 November 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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Adrian Auzout
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