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Letter, from Johann Jakob Lungershausen to Edward Lhwyd

Reference number: EL/L6/1

Date: 02 May 1695

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At the top of the letter is a note: 'For E Lh at the museum in Oxford'
Outlining topics which he could share with the Royal Society eg. study of polymaths, interpretation and methodological analysis of scripture
Read to the Royal Society on 22 April 1696

Reference number
EL/L6/1
Earliest possible date
02 May 1695
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1 page
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Manuscript

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Johann Jakob Lungershausen

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Johann Jakob Lungershausen, Letter, from Johann Jakob Lungershausen to Edward Lhwyd, 02 May 1695, EL/L6/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_l6_1/letter-from-johann-jakob-lungershausen-to-edward-lhwyd, accessed on 19 April 2026

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