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Letter, from John Wallis to Richard Waller, dated at Oxford

Reference number: EL/W2/44

Date: 17 June 1693

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Concerns delivery of letters; sends a letter for Molyneux making recommendations in order to find the parallax of the fixed stars in relation to the earth
Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

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EL/W2/44
Earliest possible date
17 June 1693
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1 page
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Manuscript

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John Wallis

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John Wallis, John Wallis, Letter, from John Wallis to Richard Waller, dated at Oxford, 17 June 1693, EL/W2/44, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_w2_44/letter-from-john-wallis-to-richard-waller-dated-at-oxford, accessed on 18 June 2025

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    The archival collection known as 'Early Letters' is composed of original manuscript letters sent to, or collected by, the Royal Society from English and foreign correspondents.

    Dates: 1613 - 1740

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