Letter, from Lorenzo Magalotti to Henry Oldenburg

Reference number: EL/M1/46

Date: 06 June 1668

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Sends a package with a paper by Cassini with his observations of the comet; transcribes an extract of a letter from Steno with details of his experiment about tying the artery against the vertebra without opening the animal; Steno also states that the comet had been seen in Livorno
Read to the Royal Society on 4 June 1669

Reference number: EL/M1/46
Earliest possible date: 06 June 1668
Page extent: 2 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Lorenzo Magalotti

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Lorenzo Magalotti, Letter, from Lorenzo Magalotti to Henry Oldenburg, 06 June 1668, EL/M1/46, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_m1_46/letter-from-lorenzo-magalotti-to-henry-oldenburg, accessed on 10 December 2024

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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
1613-1740 Reference number: EL
Early Letters M1
1651-1713 Reference number: EL/M1

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Henry Oldenburg
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Lorenzo Magalotti
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Dates: 1613-1740

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