Copy of a letter, from Henry Jacob to Robert Hooke, dated at Lisbon
Reference number: EL/I1/152
Date: 27 December 1680
Description
Discussing Bond's theory of the inclinatory needle; concerns making a new map of Portugal; encloses a paper with observations of five lunar eclipses
- Reference number
- EL/I1/152
- Earliest possible date
- 27 December 1680
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Creator name
Henry Jacobs
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Henry Jacobs, Copy of a letter, from Henry Jacob to Robert Hooke, dated at Lisbon, 27 December 1680, EL/I1/152, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_i1_152/copy-of-a-letter-from-henry-jacob-to-robert-hooke-dated-at-lisbon, accessed on 24 March 2025
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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
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Robert Hooke
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