Letter, from John Beale to Henry Oldenburg
Reference number: EL/B1/59
Date: 28 July 1673
Description
Concerns sending Mr Strode of Maperton's (Somerset) new way of measuring a triangle whose sides are given in numbers without finding a perpendicular
The latter part of Strode's work is attached
Oldenburg endorsed this letter: 'The inclosed of Mr Strodes I sent back to him upon the desire of Dr Beale, after it was enter'd in our 6th Letter book, pag. 215'
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- EL/B1/59
- Earliest possible date
- 28 July 1673
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- Ink on paper
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- 3 pages
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- Manuscript
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John Beale, Letter, from John Beale to Henry Oldenburg, 28 July 1673, EL/B1/59, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_b1_59/letter-from-john-beale-to-henry-oldenburg, accessed on 03 November 2024
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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
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Henry Oldenburg
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