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Letter, from John Werden to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Stockholm

Reference number: EL/W3/50

Date: 24 June 1671

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States that he will send Boyle's treatise on air to Rudbeckius; that he will send Rudbeckius's draft of a bridge and is not sure about his engine to raise water; discusses Boyle's treatise on cold; postscript with observations of the weatherglass
Read to the Royal Society on 16 November 1671

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EL/W3/50
Earliest possible date
24 June 1671
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Sir; John Werden

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Sir; John Werden, Letter, from John Werden to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Stockholm, 24 June 1671, EL/W3/50, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_w3_50/letter-from-john-werden-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-stockholm, accessed on 02 December 2024

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