Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Renatus Slusius, dated at London

Reference number: EL/O2/156

Date: 17 May 1675

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Wishes to know who should be entrusted with the original diploma of election to guarantee delivery of it to Slusius; that Boyle had published his 'Tracts about hidden qualities of the air'; that Wallis had published a dissertation on the gravity of fluids; that Malpighi's treatise had arrived which was illustrated with 54 phytological plates and instructed the Society to publish it; details a mathematical problem sent by Davenant

Reference number: EL/O2/156
Earliest possible date: 17 May 1675
Page extent: 2 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Henry Oldenburg

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Henry Oldenburg, Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Renatus Slusius, dated at London, 17 May 1675, EL/O2/156, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_o2_156/letter-from-henry-oldenburg-to-renatus-slusius-dated-at-london, accessed on 12 October 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 O2
1669-1736 Reference number: EL/O2

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Renatus Franciscus Slusius
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Henry Oldenburg
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