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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

Letter, from John Sellers to Robert Hooke

Reference number: EL/S1/48

Date: 12 April 1667

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Details of trials with magnetic needles and whether different lodestones give different directions
Read to the Royal Society on 25 April 1667

Reference number
EL/S1/48
Earliest possible date
12 April 1667
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3 pages
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Manuscript
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John Seller

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John Seller, Letter, from John Sellers to Robert Hooke, 12 April 1667, EL/S1/48, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_s1_48/letter-from-john-sellers-to-robert-hooke, accessed on 21 June 2025

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