Letter, from Robert Hooke to John Beale
Reference number: EL/B1/61
Date: 01 January 1670
Description
This letter is Hooke's reply to Beale's letter (EL/B1/60)
Hooke discusses the Hevelian polemoscope; discusses Mr Smethwick's telescope and states that research into telescopes and microscopes is still deficient
- Reference number
- EL/B1/61
- Earliest possible date
- 01 January 1670
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 1 page
- Format
- Manuscript
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Robert Hooke
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Robert Hooke, Robert Hooke, Robert Hooke, Letter, from Robert Hooke to John Beale, 01 January 1670, EL/B1/61, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_b1_61/letter-from-robert-hooke-to-john-beale, accessed on 25 January 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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John Beale
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Robert Hooke
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Robert Hooke
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