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

Reference number: EL/F1/7

Date: 25 April 1667

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Signed autograph
Concerning publication of 'Britannia Baconica'; concerning the post-mortem of a woman whose thorax was full of a milky substance; concerning a man who when living was hydropical and his post-mortem revealed one wasted lung
No original figure attached - figure of lungs inserted in LBO/2/21

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EL/F1/7
Earliest possible date
25 April 1667
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

Creator name

Nathaniel Fairfax

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Nathaniel Fairfax, Letter, from Nathaniel Fairfax to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Woodbridge, 25 April 1667, EL/F1/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_f1_7/letter-from-nathaniel-fairfax-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-woodbridge, accessed on 14 December 2024

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