Letter, from Robert Boyle to Henry Oldenburg

Reference number: EL/B1/93

Date: 14 October 1665

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Autograph letter with details of the meeting of members of the Royal Society eg. what papers were read and Boyle's experiment of suspending mercury in a pipe open at both ends and experiments with 'oil of tobacco' and animals

Reference number: EL/B1/93
Earliest possible date: 14 October 1665
Page extent: 3 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Robert Boyle

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Robert Boyle, Letter, from Robert Boyle to Henry Oldenburg, 14 October 1665, EL/B1/93, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_b1_93/letter-from-robert-boyle-to-henry-oldenburg, accessed on 04 December 2023

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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
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Early Letters B1
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Henry Oldenburg
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Robert Boyle
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