Letter, from Walter Needham to Henry Oldenburg
Reference number: EL/N1/28
Date: 10 March 1667
Description
Exploring the nature of respiration and discussing Hooke's experiment of blowing air into animals' lungs with bellows; also about inflating the collapsed lungs of the foetus
Read to the Royal Society on 23 April 1668
- Reference number
- EL/N1/28
- Earliest possible date
- 10 March 1667
- Page extent
- 6 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Walter Needham, Letter, from Walter Needham to Henry Oldenburg, 10 March 1667, EL/N1/28, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_n1_28/letter-from-walter-needham-to-henry-oldenburg, accessed on 18 February 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 -
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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Walter Needham
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