Letter, from Pierre Petit to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Paris

Reference number: EL/P1/9

Date: 08 May 1667

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Thanks for being proposed for election to the Fellowship; regrets that his letter on magnetic variation did not arrive but that he can make a copy from notes taken by Henry Justel (see EL/P1/5 and EL/P1/6 for this); concerning his instrument for measuring the diameters of planets has been printed in the 'Journal des Scavans'
Postscript can be found with EL/P1/10 concerning additions to his letter mentioned above

Reference number: EL/P1/9
Earliest possible date: 08 May 1667
Page extent: 1 page
Format: Manuscript
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Pierre Petit, Letter, from Pierre Petit to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Paris, 08 May 1667, EL/P1/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_p1_9/letter-from-pierre-petit-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-paris, accessed on 22 April 2025

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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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