Letter, from T[homas] Stack to Philip Zollman

Reference number: EL/B3/68

Date: 10 February 1737

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Stack sends a copy of a minute from a meeting of the Royal Society held on 26 January
This states that the Royal Society can do nothing if Baratier keeps his proposal a secret and that the Act of Parliament of 1714, which offered a reward to the person who solved the 'longitude problem', was still in force and would be sent to him

Reference number: EL/B3/68
Earliest possible date: 10 February 1737
Page extent: 1 page
Format: Manuscript
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Thomas Stack

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Thomas Stack, Letter, from T[homas] Stack to Philip Zollman, 10 February 1737, EL/B3/68, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_b3_68/letter-from-thomas-stack-to-philip-zollman, accessed on 14 December 2024

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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
1613-1740 Reference number: EL
Early Letters B3
1728-1739 Reference number: EL/B3

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Philip Henry Zollman
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Thomas Stack
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Dates: 1613-1740

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