Extract of a letter, from Pierre Maupertuis to Andreas Celsius, dated at Paris

Reference number: EL/M3/25

Date: 01 January 1735

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Suggesting West Bothnia as the best place for making observations of the figure of the earth in the northern expedition; concerning Graham's astronomical pendulum clock; that the French expedition to Peru had arrived
Original dated 22 November 1735

Reference number: EL/M3/25
Earliest possible date: 01 January 1735
Page extent: 2 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis

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Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, Extract of a letter, from Pierre Maupertuis to Andreas Celsius, dated at Paris, 01 January 1735, EL/M3/25, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_m3_25/extract-of-a-letter-from-pierre-maupertuis-to-andreas-celsius-dated-at-paris, accessed on 05 December 2025

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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 M3
1719 - 1853 Reference number: EL/M3

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Andreas Celsius
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