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

Reference number: EL/N1/49

Date: 30 November 1675

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Concerning Thomas Mace's otocousticon (ear-trumpet)
Figure in text
Mace (d 1709?), a deaf lutanist, who made a lute of 50 strings in 1672 and wrote 'Music's monument' in 1676.

Reference number
EL/N1/49
Earliest possible date
30 November 1675
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1 page
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Manuscript

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Isaac Newton

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Isaac Newton, Letter, from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Cambridge, 30 November 1675, EL/N1/49, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_n1_49/letter-from-isaac-newton-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-cambridge, accessed on 18 February 2025

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