Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Robert Boyle, dated at London
Reference number: EL/OB/45
Date: 16 January 1666
Description
Encloses John Beale's barometric observations (inserted at end of letter); concerns printing Boyle's work and about printing an Italian treatise on vipers; concerns the translation of the Old Testament into Turkish with queries about English grammar; concerns finding the true distance of the sun and moon from Earth, picking out St Helens and Portugal as spots to assemble equipment; concerning France joining Holland in the war against Britain
- Reference number
- EL/OB/45
- Earliest possible date
- 16 January 1666
- Page extent
- 6 pages
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- Manuscript
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Henry Oldenburg, Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Robert Boyle, dated at London, 16 January 1666, EL/OB/45, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_ob_45/letter-from-henry-oldenburg-to-robert-boyle-dated-at-london, accessed on 14 November 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 -
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Robert Boyle
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Henry Oldenburg
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