Letter, from Johannes Hevelius to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Danzig (Gdansk)

Reference number: EL/H2/1

Date: 04 January 1664

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Praises the Royal Society; states that he will send his 'Cometographia' when it is published; states that a catalogue of fixed stars must be realised before any further work can take place; states that he is working on his 'Machina Coelestis' but that he needs the observations of King Ulug-Beg, which are found in a Persian manuscript in Oxford

Reference number: EL/H2/1
Earliest possible date: 04 January 1664
Page extent: 3 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Johannes Hevelius

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Johannes Hevelius, Letter, from Johannes Hevelius to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Danzig (Gdansk), 04 January 1664, EL/H2/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_h2_1/letter-from-johannes-hevelius-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-danzig-gdansk, accessed on 10 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 H2 (Hevelius)
1664-1687 Reference number: EL/H2

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Henry Oldenburg
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Johannes Hevelius
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