Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Marcello Malpighi, dated at London
Reference number: EL/O2/38
Date: 20 December 1670
Description
Copies of Malpighi's work on silkworms have now arrived; that he is sending recently published work by Boyle, Lower; concerning Lana from Brescia who is planning work on physics; that Montanari's books had been delivered and the Fellows still had to comment on his paper on glass drops
- Reference number
- EL/O2/38
- Earliest possible date
- 20 December 1670
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- 2 pages
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- Manuscript
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Henry Oldenburg
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Henry Oldenburg, Henry Oldenburg, Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Marcello Malpighi, dated at London, 20 December 1670, EL/O2/38, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_o2_38/letter-from-henry-oldenburg-to-marcello-malpighi-dated-at-london, accessed on 13 July 2025
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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
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Marcello Malpighi
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Henry Oldenburg
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