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Letter, from Georg Stiernhielm to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Stockholm

Reference number: EL/S1/112

Date: 17 May 1670

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Thanks for being elected to the Fellowship; details of the gardener to the Queen of Sweden at Drottningsholm, Erich Biornsson, who was revived after being trapped under the ice of a lake for 15 hours
Read to the Royal Society on 3 November 1670

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EL/S1/112
Earliest possible date
17 May 1670
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Georg Stiernhielm

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Georg Stiernhielm, Letter, from Georg Stiernhielm to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Stockholm, 17 May 1670, EL/S1/112, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_s1_112/letter-from-georg-stiernhielm-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-stockholm, accessed on 12 December 2024

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