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

Reference number: EL/OB/55

Date: 18 September 1666

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States that William Brouncker would like Boyle's experiments sent to him; concerning Oldenburg's personal finances as a widower; concerns the stationers at St Paul's after the Great Fire; states that Christopher Wren has drawn a model for a new city of London and put it before the King; Oldenburg states that the model should have come before the Royal Society first; that Parliament has been adjourned; that the French fleet is at the Isle of Wight

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EL/OB/55
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18 September 1666
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4 pages
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Manuscript
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Henry Oldenburg

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Henry Oldenburg, Henry Oldenburg, Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Robert Boyle, dated at London, 18 September 1666, EL/OB/55, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_ob_55/letter-from-henry-oldenburg-to-robert-boyle-dated-at-london, accessed on 17 July 2025

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