Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Robert Boyle

Reference number: EL/OB/83

Date: 03 March 1667

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Details of a recent meeting of the Society: Smethwick's telescopes, microscope and two burning concave lenses were shown; carrying out Steno's experiment of 'tying up the descending artery of a dog'; trying Boyle's experiment of compressing air from shining fish; account of a bladder stone; about items for the Society's repository

Reference number: EL/OB/83
Earliest possible date: 03 March 1667
Page extent: 4 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Henry Oldenburg

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Henry Oldenburg, Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Robert Boyle, 03 March 1667, EL/OB/83, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_ob_83/letter-from-henry-oldenburg-to-robert-boyle, accessed on 14 October 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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Dates: 1613-1740

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