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

Reference number: EL/OB/77

Date: 14 January 1667

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States that Hooke's account about measuring air pressure at sea is attached (see EL/OB/76); concerning Willis's powders from Bristol which can make 'Spaw-water'; concerning Merret's paper entitled 'Simple extract of St Vincent's water' made with vitriolate juice; transcribing part of Michael Behm's letter (in Latin) about his views on Boyle's works on colour and fluidity (see EL/B1/126 for original); concerns printing Boyle's 'Hydrostatical paradoxes'; concerns establishing a residence for the Society - appointing a Committee of Beggars and wishing Robert Moray to canvass in Scotland

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EL/OB/77
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14 January 1667
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5 pages
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Henry Oldenburg, Henry Oldenburg, Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Robert Boyle, dated at London, 14 January 1667, EL/OB/77, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_ob_77/letter-from-henry-oldenburg-to-robert-boyle-dated-at-london, accessed on 14 November 2025

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