Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Johannes Hevelius, dated at London

Reference number: EL/O1/66

Date: 11 May 1668

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Transcribes Robert Hooke's piece about telescopic sights (figure in text with method of adjusting the quadrant); that French philosophers are working on optics, laws of motion, discovering the exact measure of time, and anatomy; that the Italian philosophers have published their experiments through the Florentine academicians; concerning a new building for the Society

Reference number: EL/O1/66
Earliest possible date: 11 May 1668
Page extent: 4 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Henry Oldenburg

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Henry Oldenburg, Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Johannes Hevelius, dated at London, 11 May 1668, EL/O1/66, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_o1_66/letter-from-henry-oldenburg-to-johannes-hevelius-dated-at-london, accessed on 14 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
Early Letters O1 (Oldenburg)
1663-1669 Reference number: EL/O1

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Johannes Hevelius
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Henry Oldenburg
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