Letter, from Armand de Gerard to Henry Oldenburg

Reference number: EL/G1/38

Date: 22 October 1673

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Sends a figure of the philosophical tree of Raymond Lull (c 1235-1315) which he describes (figure not attached). The tree was used to analyse the problems and concepts of medicine. Lists the names of authors of alchemical works and discusses the door of his cathedral at Sarlat in the Dordogne because it has the figures of ten pagan gods

Reference number: EL/G1/38
Earliest possible date: 22 October 1673
Page extent: 4 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Armand de Gerard

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Armand de Gerard, Letter, from Armand de Gerard to Henry Oldenburg, 22 October 1673, EL/G1/38, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_g1_38/letter-from-armand-de-gerard-to-henry-oldenburg, accessed on 17 August 2026

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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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