Letter, from Richard Waller to Hans Sloane
Reference number: EL/W3/70
Date: 05 October 1707
Description
Concerns publishing papers by Hooke, particularly the ones about improving telescopes and microscopes; has thought about names for plants but feels that a more skilful botantist would be better; gives an account of how a man and his sister, who are both deaf, communicate with each other
Read to the Royal Society on 22 October 1707
- Reference number
- EL/W3/70
- Earliest possible date
- 05 October 1707
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- 2 pages
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- Manuscript
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Richard Waller, Letter, from Richard Waller to Hans Sloane, 05 October 1707, EL/W3/70, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_w3_70/letter-from-richard-waller-to-hans-sloane, accessed on 19 April 2025
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Hans Sloane
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Richard Waller
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