Letter, from Thomas Hobbes to Mr Brookes, dated at Chatsworth

Reference number: EL/H1/105

Date: 20 October 1668

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Concerning a woman who is dying of starvation after losing her appetite and not eating or drinking for several months.
Read to the Royal Society on 10 December 1668

Reference number: EL/H1/105
Earliest possible date: 20 October 1668
Page extent: 2 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Thomas Hobbes

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Thomas Hobbes, Letter, from Thomas Hobbes to Mr Brookes, dated at Chatsworth, 20 October 1668, EL/H1/105, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_h1_105/letter-from-thomas-hobbes-to-mr-brookes-dated-at-chatsworth, accessed on 11 December 2024

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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 H1
1661-1676 Reference number: EL/H1

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John Brooke
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