Letter, from Nathaniel Fairfax to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Woodbridge

Reference number: EL/F1/17

Date: 17 July 1668

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Signed autograph
Further details about the water clock and says that Captain Slater is sending an account of it; discussing Cave Beck's work 'Universal character'

Reference number: EL/F1/17
Earliest possible date: 17 July 1668
Page extent: 1 page
Format: Manuscript
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Nathaniel Fairfax

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Nathaniel Fairfax, Letter, from Nathaniel Fairfax to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Woodbridge, 17 July 1668, EL/F1/17, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_f1_17/letter-from-nathaniel-fairfax-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-woodbridge, accessed on 02 December 2024

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Letter, 'Letter in the universal character' [possibly from Cave Beck] to Robert Hooke
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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 F1
1661-1674 Reference number: EL/F1

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