Letter, from Richard Towneley to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Towneley

Reference number: EL/T/28

Date: 16 June 1693

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Details of people who have lived to old ages; wishing for an account of Huygens' book on pendulums; would like to see Hooke's calculating instrument

Reference number: EL/T/28
Earliest possible date: 16 June 1693
Page extent: 2 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Richard Towneley

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Richard Towneley, Letter, from Richard Towneley to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Towneley, 16 June 1693, EL/T/28, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_t_28/letter-from-richard-towneley-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-towneley, accessed on 14 December 2024

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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 T
1661-1737 Reference number: EL/T

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