Translation of a letter, from Johann Weidler to Cromwell Mortimer, dated at Wittemberg

Reference number: EL/W4/3

Date: 01 January 1738

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Original in Latin and dated 2 February 1738

Sends observations of parhelia (mock suns), with details about the measurement of rain and melted snow; discussing Edmond Halley's astronomical tables; sends his treatise on arithmetical figures and a brass quadrant from the 1300s

Reference number: EL/W4/3
Earliest possible date: 01 January 1738
Page extent: 6 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Johann Friedrich Weidler

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Johann Friedrich Weidler, Translation of a letter, from Johann Weidler to Cromwell Mortimer, dated at Wittemberg, 01 January 1738, EL/W4/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_w4_3/translation-of-a-letter-from-johann-weidler-to-cromwell-mortimer-dated-at-wittemberg, accessed on 21 January 2025

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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 W4
1729-1737 Reference number: EL/W4

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Cromwell Mortimer
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Johann Friedrich Weidler
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