Letter, from Christopher Kirkby to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Danzig (Gdansk)
Reference number: EL/K/9
Date: 25 April 1672
Description
Notices about a new instruction for making steel and a design for shortening glasses; discussing Hevelius's observations of the comet
Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'
- Reference number
- EL/K/9
- Earliest possible date
- 25 April 1672
- Page extent
- 1 page
- Format
- Manuscript
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Creator name
Christopher Kirkby
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Christopher Kirkby, Letter, from Christopher Kirkby to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Danzig (Gdansk), 25 April 1672, EL/K/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_k_9/letter-from-christopher-kirkby-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-danzig-gdansk, accessed on 10 December 2024
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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
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Henry Oldenburg
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