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Letter, from Eccard Leichner to the Royal Society, dated at Erfurt

Reference number: EL/L5/2

Date: 16 April 1663

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Signed autograph
Offers his thoughts, based on his 'Apodictical Improvement of Schools', that those who govern should take responsibility for scholarship. He asks the Royal Society to pass on his letter and book to Charles II.
Henry Oldenburg endorsed the letter: 'A Letter written to ye R Society by Dr Leichner of Erfurt about the Amendments to be made in Schooles, for the better improvement of knowledge'
Read to the Royal Society on 26 August 1663
Eccard Leichner (1612-1690), physician and theologian, Professor of Medicine at Erfurt from 1646
For summary see 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall & Marie Boas Hall, vol 2, p 45

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EL/L5/2
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16 April 1663
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3 pages
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Eccard Leichner, Letter, from Eccard Leichner to the Royal Society, dated at Erfurt, 16 April 1663, EL/L5/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_l5_2/letter-from-eccard-leichner-to-the-royal-society-dated-at-erfurt, accessed on 24 May 2025

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