Letter, from Joannes Weichard Valvasor to the Royal Society

Reference number: EL/V/36

Date: 17 November 1687

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Details of the lake at Zirknitz in Carniola [Lake Cerknica, Slovenia] with subterraneous passages
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Read to the Royal Society on 14 December 1687

Reference number: EL/V/36
Earliest possible date: 17 November 1687
Page extent: 28 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Johann Weikhard Valvasor

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Johann Weichard Valvasour

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Johann Weikhard Valvasor, Johann Weichard Valvasour, Letter, from Joannes Weichard Valvasor to the Royal Society, 17 November 1687, EL/V/36, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_v_36/letter-from-joannes-weichard-valvasor-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 09 February 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
Early Letters V
1664-1737 Reference number: EL/V

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