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Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Francesco Travagino, dated at London

Reference number: EL/O2/25

Date: 14 March 1670

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Discussing the 'art of injections' and the 'art of healing' men; concerning a treatise on respiration by Dr Thruston; concerning Isaac Barrow's book on optics and the second part of Boyle's 'Usefulness of experimental natural philosophy'

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EL/O2/25
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14 March 1670
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Henry Oldenburg

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Henry Oldenburg, Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Francesco Travagino, dated at London, 14 March 1670, EL/O2/25, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_o2_25/letter-from-henry-oldenburg-to-francesco-travagino-dated-at-london, accessed on 15 January 2025

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