Letter, from Juan Cruzado to Henry Oldenburg
Reference number: EL/C2/1
Date: 20 August 1675
Description
Cruzado discusses:
- a new place for the prime meridian of the globe
- testing the equal revolution of the natural day with his pendulum clock
- ascertaining the moon's place on land and at sea
- the longitude of Seville
These points are reiterated in EL/C2/2
Read to the Royal Society on 28 October 1675
- Reference number
- EL/C2/1
- Earliest possible date
- 20 August 1675
- Page extent
- 3 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Creator name
Juan Cruzado
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Juan Cruzado, Letter, from Juan Cruzado to Henry Oldenburg, 20 August 1675, EL/C2/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_c2_1/letter-from-juan-cruzado-to-henry-oldenburg, accessed on 16 September 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 -
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Henry Oldenburg
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