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Letter, from George Cotton to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Rome

Reference number: EL/C1/89

Date: 07 September 1669

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Autograph letter
Cotton gives observations of a subsiding mountain near Fermo

Reference number
EL/C1/89
Earliest possible date
07 September 1669
Page extent
1 page
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Manuscript
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George Cotton

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George Cotton, Letter, from George Cotton to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Rome, 07 September 1669, EL/C1/89, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_c1_89/letter-from-george-cotton-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-rome, accessed on 05 October 2024

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