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Letter, from Jacobus Gavet to the Royal Society, dated at Chambery

Reference number: EL/G1/73

Date: 16 October 1700

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Sends his small book on medicine to the Royal Society
Read to the Royal Society on 11 March 1700

Reference number
EL/G1/73
Earliest possible date
16 October 1700
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript
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Jacobus Gavet

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Jacobus Gavet, Letter, from Jacobus Gavet to the Royal Society, dated at Chambery, 16 October 1700, EL/G1/73, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_g1_73/letter-from-jacobus-gavet-to-the-royal-society-dated-at-chambery, accessed on 23 May 2025

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