Letter, from Robert Boyle to Henry Oldenburg
Reference number: EL/B1/83
Date: 14 June 1665
Description
Autograph letter about sending an observation of the last comet seen in Ireland and about the efficacy of the plant Galega ('Ruta capraria') against the bite of the viper
- Reference number
- EL/B1/83
- Earliest possible date
- 14 June 1665
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Robert Boyle, Robert Boyle, Letter, from Robert Boyle to Henry Oldenburg, 14 June 1665, EL/B1/83, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_b1_83/letter-from-robert-boyle-to-henry-oldenburg, accessed on 17 June 2025
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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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Robert Boyle
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Dates: 1613 - 1740
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