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Letter, from Augustin Boutens to Henry Oldenburg

Reference number: EL/B1/116

Date: 03 December 1667

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Autograph letter - Boutens asks for some books and promises to send some 'Helmontian Ludus' (type of stone)
Read to the Royal Society on 19 December 1667

Reference number
EL/B1/116
Earliest possible date
03 December 1667
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript
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Augustin Boutens

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Augustin Boutens, Letter, from Augustin Boutens to Henry Oldenburg, 03 December 1667, EL/B1/116, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_b1_116/letter-from-augustin-boutens-to-henry-oldenburg, accessed on 20 July 2025

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