Letter, from St George Ashe to Edmond Halley, dated at Vienna
Reference number: EL/A/41
Date: 19 July 1691
Description
Concerning the cartography of Austria and the work of Count Lewis Ferdinand Marsigh of Bologna in this area
Ashe suggests that Marsigh should become a Fellow of the Royal Society
Ashe also gives details of an experiment of transmuting brass into gold by Weneslaus de Reinberg in 1677
Subject: Cartography/ Alchemy
Read to the Royal Society on 23 September 1694
- Reference number
- EL/A/41
- Earliest possible date
- 19 July 1691
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- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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St George Ashe, Letter, from St George Ashe to Edmond Halley, dated at Vienna, 19 July 1691, EL/A/41, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_a_41/letter-from-st-george-ashe-to-edmond-halley-dated-at-vienna, accessed on 09 February 2026
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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
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St George Ashe
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Edmond Halley
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