Letter, from Ignatius Pardies to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Paris

Reference number: EL/P1/77

Date: 21 May 1672

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Encloses Pardies' comments on Newton's objections to his theory on colour and light (see EL/P1/79 and EL/N1/38 for Newton's letter); discusssing the mathematics relating to the harmonics of Samuel Moreland's trumpet and the hyperbolic figure created; Pardies hopes that he will be able to speak about the trumpet and its shape after completion of 'Mechanics'

Reference number: EL/P1/77
Earliest possible date: 21 May 1672
Page extent: 3 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Ignace-Gaston Pardies

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Ignace-Gaston Pardies, Letter, from Ignatius Pardies to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Paris, 21 May 1672, EL/P1/77, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_p1_77/letter-from-ignatius-pardies-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-paris, accessed on 13 January 2026

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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 P1
1660-1725 Reference number: EL/P1

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