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

Reference number: EL/OB/38

Date: 10 October 1665

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Asks for a copy of the letter with details of the French burning-mirror because he has lost the original; concerning Kircher's 'Mundus subterraneus' and the motion of strings to pendulums; concerning the healing powers of Greatrix; concerning the spirit of harts-horn of M Whitaker; encloses Auzout's paper with his censure of the Hevelian observations of the first comet; transcribes the President's response in how to proceed in the controversy between Auzout and Hevelius; concerning Spinosa's displeasure at Dutch stationers' Latin impression of the 'History of Colours'; concerning a blind man at Mastrich who could see colours with his finger tips and could play cards; concerning the movements of the Dutch fleet

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EL/OB/38
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10 October 1665
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4 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, 10 October 1665, EL/OB/38, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_ob_38/letter-from-henry-oldenburg-to-robert-boyle-dated-at-london, accessed on 12 October 2024

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