Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Johannes Hevelius

Reference number: EL/O2/8

Date: 02 August 1669

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Explains why the making of the lens for the telescope was delayed; details about the selling of his books with prices and the amounts spent on items which Hevelius required; that he would not be sending the telescopic tube because it was too expensive with discussion about the making of these tubes; that Hooke has not finished the telescopic sights; postscript about objective lenses

Reference number: EL/O2/8
Earliest possible date: 02 August 1669
Page extent: 6 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Henry Oldenburg

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Henry Oldenburg, Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Johannes Hevelius, 02 August 1669, EL/O2/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_o2_8/letter-from-henry-oldenburg-to-johannes-hevelius, accessed on 14 December 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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Johannes Hevelius
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Henry Oldenburg
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Dates: 1613-1740

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