Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Robert Boyle, dated at London
Reference number: EL/OB/60
Date: 15 November 1666
Description
Account of a rock of lodestone at the Isle of Anglesey from William Pearsall, and that a sample of the magnet would be sent to the Society; states that the experiments to bleed one animal into another have been successful; mentioning new Fellows of the Society; concerning Colonel Blunt's English wines
- Reference number
- EL/OB/60
- Earliest possible date
- 15 November 1666
- Page extent
- 3 pages
- Format
- 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, 15 November 1666, EL/OB/60, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_ob_60/letter-from-henry-oldenburg-to-robert-boyle-dated-at-london, accessed on 16 November 2025
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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
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Robert Boyle
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Henry Oldenburg
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