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Letter, from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz to Dethlevus Cluverus

Reference number: EL/L5/104

Date: 09 March 1680

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Concerning booksellers and literary matters; mentions a calculating machine and the division of a thermometer
Read to the Royal Society on 15 April 1680

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EL/L5/104
Earliest possible date
09 March 1680
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz

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Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Letter, from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz to Dethlevus Cluverus, 09 March 1680, EL/L5/104, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_l5_104/letter-from-gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz-to-dethlevus-cluverus, accessed on 17 August 2026

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