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

Reference number: EL/OB/47

Date: 24 February 1666

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Concerning the workings of the early Society - arrears of members' subscriptions, setting up a repository of curiosities; states that the sequel to 'Hydrostatical paradoxes' has arrived and that several treatises from France are expected; concerning de la Son's telescope; states that he will write to Hevelius to ask for information about making potash and about the Salgemmae-mines in Poland; concerning developments in the war against Britain

Reference number: EL/OB/47
Earliest possible date: 24 February 1666
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, 24 February 1666, EL/OB/47, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_ob_47/letter-from-henry-oldenburg-to-robert-boyle-dated-at-london, accessed on 13 January 2025

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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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