Letter, from John Wallis to Edmond Halley, dated at Oxford
Reference number: EL/W2/43
Date: 14 December 1686
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Sends minutes of the Oxford Society (attached); discusses papers of Isaac Newton about measuring the movement of bodies; concerning 'Ludus Helmontii'; discussing monsoons and trade-wides
Minutes of the Oxford Society dated from 30 November and 7 December 1686 with items about shells at the Ashmolean repository, crabfish from Barbados, kernel of an Indian nut, man who was cured of a fainting disease by chewing rhubarb, about a woman who was cured of epilepsy after she was married
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- EL/W2/43
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- 14 December 1686
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- 4 pages
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- Manuscript
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John Wallis, Letter, from John Wallis to Edmond Halley, dated at Oxford, 14 December 1686, EL/W2/43, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_w2_43/letter-from-john-wallis-to-edmond-halley-dated-at-oxford, accessed on 07 December 2025
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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
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Edmond Halley
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