Letter, from Francisco Travagino to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Venice
Reference number: EL/T/13
Date: 26 June 1675
Description
Travagino outlines his method for changing mercury into a kind of silver which occurred twice with observations of how it congealed
Read to the Royal Society on 28 October 1675
- Reference number
- EL/T/13
- Earliest possible date
- 26 June 1675
- Page extent
- 7 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Francesco Travagino
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Francesco Travagino, Francesco Travagino, Letter, from Francisco Travagino to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Venice, 26 June 1675, EL/T/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_t_13/letter-from-francisco-travagino-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-venice, accessed on 19 April 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 -
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Henry Oldenburg
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Francesco Travagino
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