Letter, from George Cotton to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Rome
Reference number: EL/C1/88
Date: 31 August 1669
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Autograph letter
Cotton recommends an instrument which can measure liquids and encloses a paper by Gottignies ('Nuova Bilancia de'Liquidi del Signor Fabritio Guastaferri') concerning the gravity of liquors which he wishes Dr Downes to read
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- EL/C1/88
- Earliest possible date
- 31 August 1669
- Page extent
- 5 pages
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- Manuscript and Printed
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George Cotton, Letter, from George Cotton to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Rome, 31 August 1669, EL/C1/88, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_c1_88/letter-from-george-cotton-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-rome, accessed on 08 July 2025
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