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List of enquiries for Johannes Hevelius by Henry Oldenburg

Reference number: EL/O1/23

Date: 1666

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Enclosed with EL/O1/22
About Burattini's work on dioptrics; Venetian glass; about amber; whether the Gulf of Finland is frozen; affects of cold on the body, on steel, on fish in frozen water, birds in the wild, on brine

Reference number
EL/O1/23
Earliest possible date
1666
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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Henry Oldenburg

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Henry Oldenburg, List of enquiries for Johannes Hevelius by Henry Oldenburg, 1666, EL/O1/23, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_o1_23/list-of-enquiries-for-johannes-hevelius-by-henry-oldenburg, accessed on 02 December 2024

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