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Letter, from Adamus Adamandus, SJ, Professor of Mathematics to Matthew Wasmuth, Doctor of Theology and Oriental languages, dated at Vratislavia (Breslau)

Reference number: EL/A/27

Date: 10 August 1678

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Further comments and objections about Wasmuth's new hypothesis about astronomical chronology ('Idea Novi Operis Astronomico- Chronologio')

Subject: Astronomy/ Chronology

Reference number
EL/A/27
Earliest possible date
10 August 1678
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, from Adamus Adamandus, SJ, Professor of Mathematics to Matthew Wasmuth, Doctor of Theology and Oriental languages, dated at Vratislavia (Breslau), 10 August 1678, EL/A/27, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_a_27/letter-from-adamus-adamandus-sj-professor-of-mathematics-to-matthew-wasmuth-doctor-of-theology-and-oriental-languages-dated-at-vratislavia-breslau, accessed on 14 October 2024

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