Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg

Reference number: EL/N1/36

Date: 19 March 1671

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Discussing the reflecting telescope; discussing the telescope by the fellow mentioned in EL/N1/35; states that these observations can be printed in 'Philosophical Transactions' but that his comments on Hooke's observations will not be ready for two weeks.

Read to the Royal Society on 21 March 1671

Reference number: EL/N1/36
Earliest possible date: 19 March 1671
Physical description: Ink on paper
Page extent: 1 page
Format: Manuscript
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Isaac Newton

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Isaac Newton, Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg, 19 March 1671, EL/N1/36, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_n1_36/letter-from-isaac-newton-to-henry-oldenburg, accessed on 12 December 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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Isaac Newton
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Dates: 1613-1740

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