Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Johannes Hevelius, dated at London
Reference number: EL/O1/12
Date: 11 May 1664
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Informing Hevelius that he has been elected to the Fellowship; encouraging his work on cataloguing fixed stars; praises his 'Cometographia' which is in the press; concerning the predictions of mercury and the sun by Thomas Street and that the Society has commissioned observers in America to witness it; detailing Street's predictions of the transit of Mercury and asking Hevelius to check his work 'Mercurius in sole visus' about this
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- EL/O1/12
- Earliest possible date
- 11 May 1664
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- 4 pages
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- Manuscript
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Henry Oldenburg, Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Johannes Hevelius, dated at London, 11 May 1664, EL/O1/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_o1_12/letter-from-henry-oldenburg-to-johannes-hevelius-dated-at-london, accessed on 10 May 2026
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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
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Johannes Hevelius
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Henry Oldenburg
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