Letter, from Joseph Glanvill to Henry Oldenburg

Reference number: EL/G1/12

Date: 18 September 1668

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States that he has asked a physician from Nantwich to communicate his observations of the salt works there; encloses a paper from a mathematician who is willing to communicate his ideas about algebra

Reference number: EL/G1/12
Earliest possible date: 18 September 1668
Page extent: 2 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Joseph Glanvill

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Joseph; Rector of the Abbey Church Glanvill

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Joseph Glanvill, Joseph; Rector of the Abbey Church Glanvill, Letter, from Joseph Glanvill to Henry Oldenburg, 18 September 1668, EL/G1/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_g1_12/letter-from-joseph-glanvill-to-henry-oldenburg, accessed on 18 June 2025

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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 G1
1613-1728 Reference number: EL/G1

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Henry Oldenburg
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Joseph Glanvill
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Dates: 1613 - 1740

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