Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Robert Boyle, dated at Paris
Reference number: EL/OB/6
Date: 20 March 1660
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Thanks for sending treatises on plants and manners; discussions about a dissolvent of gold; concerning the treatise by Nicholas Lienard about the causes of purgation; wishes to see Boyle's treatise on pneumatics
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- EL/OB/6
- Earliest possible date
- 20 March 1660
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- 2 pages
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- Manuscript
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Henry Oldenburg, Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Robert Boyle, dated at Paris, 20 March 1660, EL/OB/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_ob_6/letter-from-henry-oldenburg-to-robert-boyle-dated-at-paris, accessed on 17 February 2026
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Robert Boyle
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Henry Oldenburg
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