Letter, from Luke Hodgson to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Newcastle
Reference number: EL/H3/23
Date: 15 May 1676

Description
Answers to questions set by Robert Boyle about smouldering coalpits near Newcastle and then compares it to Mount Etna; sends a box of the different salts found in the coalpit
Account of the 'spirit of sugar'
Read to the Royal Society on 2 November 1676
- Reference number
- EL/H3/23
- Earliest possible date
- 15 May 1676
- Page extent
- 5 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Creator name
Luke Hodgson
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Luke Hodgson, Letter, from Luke Hodgson to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Newcastle, 15 May 1676, EL/H3/23, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_h3_23/letter-from-luke-hodgson-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-newcastle, accessed on 11 February 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 -
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Henry Oldenburg
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