Letter, from Lorenzo Magalotti to Henry Oldenburg
Reference number: EL/M1/46
Date: 06 June 1668
Description
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, 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 13 November 2025
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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
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Henry Oldenburg
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Lorenzo Magalotti
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Dates: 1613 - 1740
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