Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Robert Boyle

Reference number: EL/OB/48

Date: 06 March 1666

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Concerning delivery of treatises; states that Wallis has promised to write his observations of an earthquake for 'Philosophical Transactions' and asks for Boyle's observations on the baroscope for the same publication; concerns printing 'History of Cold'; concerning Jews in the Middle East who hope to be given back their lands (transcribes extract of letters from Jews and Christians on this topic in French)

Reference number: EL/OB/48
Earliest possible date: 06 March 1666
Page extent: 3 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Henry Oldenburg

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Henry Oldenburg, Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Robert Boyle, 06 March 1666, EL/OB/48, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_ob_48/letter-from-henry-oldenburg-to-robert-boyle, accessed on 09 September 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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