Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 6, copies of papers communicated 1685-1687
Reference number: RBO/6
Date: 1685-1687
Description
Fair copies of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society transcribed to establish their precedence for a particular discovery or idea.
At the back of the volume is a table of the Society's foreign correspondents in 1677 (from Scotland, Ireland, France, Italy, Sicily, Germany, Low Countries, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Persia, Japan and Batavia [colonial name of the capital of the Dutch East Indies, now Jakarta, Indonesia]).
There is also a copy of a letter from Dr Thomas Gale to Leeuwenhoek (in Latin), dated 26 February 1679, stating that he was sending his election certificate to the Society (which is cited below this).
- Reference number
- RBO/6
- Earliest possible date
- 1685-1687
- Page extent
- 1 volume
- Format
- Manuscript
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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 6, copies of papers communicated 1685-1687, 1685-1687, RBO/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_6/register-book-of-the-royal-society-volume-6-copies-of-papers-communicated-1685-1687, accessed on 13 December 2024
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This volume contains 141 manuscripts:
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'A Discourse about the Calculus Humanus' made by Frederick Slare
12 December 1683 Reference number: RBO/6/1 -
'Table of the Eclipses of the Satellites of Jupiter Calculated for the year 1684' by John Flamsteed with instructions for its use
19 December 1683 Reference number: RBO/6/2 -
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Details of a magnetical experiment by Thomas Henshaw
Reference number: RBO/6/4
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Dates: 1661-1739
The 'Register Books Originals' contain copies of scientific papers submitted to the Society and considered for publication. The papers were transcribed to establish their precedence for a particular discovery or idea.View collection