Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to James Grandi, dated at London

Reference number: EL/O2/163

Date: 06 October 1676

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Thanks Grandi for his correspondence about the human foetus forced out through an abscess and about an eight-month embryo formed in the Fallopian tube; that Boyle had published a treatise on the 'Mechanical origin of qualities' and a discourse about the chemist's doctrine of qualities; concerning Glisson's work on 'natural perception'; discussing the work of Leibniz - that he hoped to reduce the whole of mechanics to geometry and that the definition of problems concerning elasticity and hydraulics etc are within his power

Reference number: EL/O2/163
Earliest possible date: 06 October 1676
Page extent: 2 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Henry Oldenburg, Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to James Grandi, dated at London, 06 October 1676, EL/O2/163, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_o2_163/letter-from-henry-oldenburg-to-james-grandi-dated-at-london, accessed on 15 December 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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