Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Erasmus Bartholin

Reference number: EL/O2/162

Date: 06 March 1675

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Thanks for Bartolin's letters; that the reply from the Bishop of Holar in Iceland had been read to the Society; since Icelanders appear to lack quicksilver, spirit of lead and other chemicals should be shipped to them so that the Society's experiments could be carried out there; that Flamsteed's observations of the lunar eclipse had been sent - wishes for Bartholin's observations in return

Reference number: EL/O2/162
Earliest possible date: 06 March 1675
Page extent: 2 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Henry Oldenburg

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Henry Oldenburg, Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Erasmus Bartholin, 06 March 1675, EL/O2/162, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_o2_162/letter-from-henry-oldenburg-to-erasmus-bartholin, accessed on 21 March 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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