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Letter, from Martin Lister to Henry Oldenburg, dated at York

Reference number: EL/L5/66

Date: 07 January 1673

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Signed autograph
Two transcribed extracts from letters from Jessop: one concerning a straight line being equal to a curved one; the another about subterraneous hot air and fungus from caves and mines
Read to the Royal Society on 22 January 1673
Transcription in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall & Marie Boas Hall, vol 10, p 424

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EL/L5/66
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07 January 1673
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Martin Lister

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Martin Lister, Letter, from Martin Lister to Henry Oldenburg, dated at York, 07 January 1673, EL/L5/66, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_l5_66/letter-from-martin-lister-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-york, accessed on 23 January 2025

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