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Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Robert Boyle, dated at London

Reference number: EL/OB/11

Date: 01 September 1664

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Concerning political events in Europe; states that merchants have found the North-East passage to China; concerning the East Indian company; details of experiments at Gresham college - finding velocity of a bullet and time of falling bodies in water; that experiments about falling bodies were carried out at St Paul's; concerning Zulichem's system of Saturn confirmed with good glasses and about his new pendulum for longitude; about the post-chariot which will travel from Paris to Bordeaux in 4.5 days; list of enquiries concerning meadows and arable in England by the Committee of Agriculture

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EL/OB/11
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01 September 1664
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7 pages
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Manuscript
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Henry Oldenburg

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Henry Oldenburg, Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Robert Boyle, dated at London, 01 September 1664, EL/OB/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_ob_11/letter-from-henry-oldenburg-to-robert-boyle-dated-at-london, accessed on 12 October 2024

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