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Letter, from Henry Justel to Henry Oldenburg

Reference number: EL/I1/76

Date: 28 August 1675

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States that he will be receiving a penknife from Germany, which is partly made from gold and iron, with a treatise on how to make it; notices from Tittel in Leipzig eg. his machine for making parabolic lenses has not been successful, that he knows how to liquify amber; concerning his mathemathical instrument which can solve geometrical and arithmetical propositions without using a compass

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EL/I1/76
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28 August 1675
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Henry Justel

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Henry Justel, Letter, from Henry Justel to Henry Oldenburg, 28 August 1675, EL/I1/76, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_i1_76/letter-from-henry-justel-to-henry-oldenburg, accessed on 15 February 2025

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  • Early Letters

    Dates: 1613-1740

    The archival collection known as 'Early Letters' is composed of original manuscript letters sent to, or collected by, the Royal Society from English and foreign correspondents.

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