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

Reference number: EL/H2/30

Date: 10 June 1672

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States that a more detailed account of the comet is being sent; wishes to know about the new way of making telescopes in England; that he has obtained the lenses for his 140-foot telescope; that he has not seen the report about the phases of Saturn from the Parisian astronomers; asks that John Flamsteed continue with his predictions of the appulses of the moon to planets and fixed stars because he believes that these provide a more accurate method to observe differences in longitude
Read to the Royal Society on 19 June 1672

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EL/H2/30
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10 June 1672
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4 pages
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Manuscript
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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), 10 June 1672, EL/H2/30, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_h2_30/letter-from-johannes-hevelius-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-danzig-gdansk, accessed on 17 April 2026

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