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Letter, from Christopher Kirkby to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Danzig (Gdansk)

Reference number: EL/K/9

Date: 25 April 1672

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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]'

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EL/K/9
Earliest possible date
25 April 1672
Page extent
1 page
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Manuscript

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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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