Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Cambridge

Reference number: EL/N1/35

Date: 16 March 1671

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Thanks Oldenburg for an unnamed book (possibly a book which Oldenburg had recently translated into English out of French, published pseudonymously under the title 'A Discourse of Local Motion'); discussing the telescope that he had made; a fellow of the college is making another telescope, an account of which he will send in due course

Reference number: EL/N1/35
Earliest possible date: 16 March 1671
Page extent: 1 page
Format: Manuscript
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Isaac Newton

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Isaac Newton, Sir; Isaac Newton, Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Cambridge, 16 March 1671, EL/N1/35, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_n1_35/letter-from-isaac-newton-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-cambridge, accessed on 16 January 2026

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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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Dates: 1613 - 1740

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