Copy of a letter, from Pierre Petit to Henry Oldenburg
Reference number: EL/P1/5
Date: 01 January 1667
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Original letter dated 5 April 1667
Concerning theories on the subject of the variation of magnetic declination (see EL/P1/6); concerning Petit's paper on the latitude at Paris and magnet declination printed in 1660; can send a paper on the properties of lodestones
Read at the Royal Society on 30 May 1667
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- EL/P1/5
- Earliest possible date
- 01 January 1667
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- 2 pages
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- Manuscript
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Pierre Petit, Copy of a letter, from Pierre Petit to Henry Oldenburg, 01 January 1667, EL/P1/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_p1_5/copy-of-a-letter-from-pierre-petit-to-henry-oldenburg, accessed on 10 December 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 -
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Henry Oldenburg
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Pierre Petit
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