Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Mr [Christopher] Kirkby, dated at London

Reference number: EL/O2/113

Date: 18 March 1673

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Thanks for the two bottles of green water which have been presented to the Society; that the trial of the loud-speaking trumpet had not been successful; details about an ill minister (unnamed); concerns the printing of Hevelius's 'Machina Caelestis' and publication of Boyle's work

Reference number: EL/O2/113
Earliest possible date: 18 March 1673
Page extent: 2 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Henry Oldenburg, Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Mr [Christopher] Kirkby, dated at London, 18 March 1673, EL/O2/113, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_o2_113/letter-from-henry-oldenburg-to-mr-christopher-kirkby-dated-at-london, accessed on 28 April 2025

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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 O2
1669-1736 Reference number: EL/O2

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