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

Reference number: EL/OB/36

Date: 28 September 1665

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States that he sends a sample of Borrchi's antidote; concerning books from Mr Thompsons; sending 'Prodromus Cometicus' for Hevelius; concerns the mirror of Septalius; concerning preserved bodies which have not been embalmed; concerning the second edition of 'Usefulness of Experimental Philosophy' and publications of Boyle; discussing the Dutch at war; details of the illness of the queen of France; states that the numbers dying from the plague is reducing

Reference number: EL/OB/36
Earliest possible date: 28 September 1665
Page extent: 4 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Henry Oldenburg

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Henry Oldenburg, Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Robert Boyle, dated at London, 28 September 1665, EL/OB/36, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_ob_36/letter-from-henry-oldenburg-to-robert-boyle-dated-at-london, accessed on 12 October 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 OB (Oldenburg and Beale)
1657-1682 Reference number: EL/OB

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Robert Boyle
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Henry Oldenburg
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