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Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg

Reference number: EL/N1/48

Date: 13 November 1675

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Concerning Mr Line's experiments with colours and prisms
Read to the Royal Society on 18 November 1675

Reference number
EL/N1/48
Earliest possible date
13 November 1675
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Isaac Newton

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Isaac Newton, Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg, 13 November 1675, EL/N1/48, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_n1_48/letter-from-isaac-newton-to-henry-oldenburg, accessed on 14 November 2024

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