Letter, from Joshua Childrey to Henry Oldenburg

Reference number: EL/C1/2

Date: 22 March 1669

Description

Autograph letter where Childrey sends a box of powder to the Royal Society and states that he was preparing a list of geographical writings and travellers' narratives; some discussion about observations of the weather; pointing out matters relating to his work 'Britannia Baconica'
Read to the Royal Society on 1 April 1669

Reference number: EL/C1/2
Earliest possible date: 22 March 1669
Page extent: 3 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Joshua Childrey

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Joshua Childrey, Letter, from Joshua Childrey to Henry Oldenburg, 22 March 1669, EL/C1/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_c1_2/letter-from-joshua-childrey-to-henry-oldenburg, 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 C1
1663-1701 Reference number: EL/C1

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Henry Oldenburg
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Dates: 1613-1740

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