Letter, from Pierre Daniel Huet to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Paris

Reference number: EL/H1/97

Date: 22 February 1670

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Outlining Haunton's method for making sea water drinkable; has further questions about inventions and treatises mentioned in the 'History' of the Society
Read to the Royal Society on 24 February 1670

Reference number: EL/H1/97
Earliest possible date: 22 February 1670
Page extent: 2 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Pierre Daniel Huet

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Pierre Daniel Huet, Letter, from Pierre Daniel Huet to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Paris, 22 February 1670, EL/H1/97, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_h1_97/letter-from-pierre-daniel-huet-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-paris, 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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