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Letter, from Richard Norwood to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Sommers Island

Reference number: EL/N1/27

Date: 16 July 1668

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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

Creator name

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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