Letter, from Johannes Hevelius to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Danzig (Gdansk)
Reference number: EL/H2/24
Date: 04 March 1671
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Table for the transit of the moon across Venus (observations in EL/H2/23); asking for Christopher Cock's microscopes for Lord Marshal and High General of the Armies of Poland (John Sobieski); promising an account of a 140-foot telescope
- Reference number
- EL/H2/24
- Earliest possible date
- 04 March 1671
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- 3 pages
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Johannes Hevelius
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Johannes Hevelius, Johannes Hevelius, Letter, from Johannes Hevelius to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Danzig (Gdansk), 04 March 1671, EL/H2/24, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_h2_24/letter-from-johannes-hevelius-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-danzig-gdansk, accessed on 14 August 2026
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Johannes Hevelius
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