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

Reference number: EL/H2/32

Date: 29 October 1672

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Queries the views of the Parisian astronomers about Saturn; sends his figure of Saturn as seen through a 55-foot telescope; concerning the progress of his work 'Machina coelestis'; asks again for the micrometer to be sent which can be inserted into the telescope tube
Read to the Royal Society on 6 November 1672

Reference number: EL/H2/32
Earliest possible date: 29 October 1672
Page extent: 1 page
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), 29 October 1672, EL/H2/32, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_h2_32/letter-from-johannes-hevelius-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-danzig-gdansk, accessed on 25 March 2025

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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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Dates: 1613 - 1740

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