Letter, from Samuel Colepresse to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Underwood

Reference number: EL/C1/13

Date: 06 March 1667

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Autograph letter with details of the tide at Plymouth in January; observations of peat cut in Devon
Colepresse states that he encloses some answers to Robert Boyle's queries on mines
Read to the Royal Society on 14 March 1666

Reference number: EL/C1/13
Earliest possible date: 06 March 1667
Page extent: 2 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Samuel Colepresse

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Samuel Colepresse, Letter, from Samuel Colepresse to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Underwood, 06 March 1667, EL/C1/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_c1_13/letter-from-samuel-colepresse-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-underwood, accessed on 14 December 2024

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'An Account Of some Mineral Observations about the Mines of Devon and Cornwall' brought in by Henry Oldenburg
Reference number: RBO/3/63

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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 C1
1663-1701 Reference number: EL/C1

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Dates: 1613-1740

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