Letter, from Richard Norwood to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Sommers Island
Reference number: EL/N1/27
Date: 16 July 1668
Description
Concerning work on lenses for telescopes; suggesting correspondence with Richard Stafford and Francis Lovelace, governor of New York; details about establishing a school in Bermuda and asks for help to keep it going
Read to the Royal Society on 12 November 1668
- Reference number
- EL/N1/27
- Earliest possible date
- 16 July 1668
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Richard Norwood
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Richard Norwood, Letter, from Richard Norwood to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Sommers Island, 16 July 1668, EL/N1/27, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_n1_27/letter-from-richard-norwood-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-sommers-island, accessed on 10 October 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 -
Letters from correspondents in natural philosophy to the Royal Society and its Fellows: 'Early Letters N1'
1663-1726 Reference number: EL/N1
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Henry Oldenburg
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