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Letter, from Adamus Adamandus, SJ, Professor of Mathematics, to Matthew Wasmuth, Doctor of Theology and Oriental languages

Reference number: EL/A/26

Date: 19 March 1678

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Adamandus makes a critique of Wasmuth's new hypothesis about astronomical chronology ('Idea Novi Operis Astronomico- Chronologio'), and makes suggestions concerning it

Subejct: Astronomy/ Chronology

Reference number
EL/A/26
Earliest possible date
19 March 1678
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, from Adamus Adamandus, SJ, Professor of Mathematics, to Matthew Wasmuth, Doctor of Theology and Oriental languages, 19 March 1678, EL/A/26, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_a_26/letter-from-adamus-adamandus-sj-professor-of-mathematics-to-matthew-wasmuth-doctor-of-theology-and-oriental-languages, accessed on 14 October 2024

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