| RefNo | EL/O2/156 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Renatus Slusius, dated at London |
| Date | 17 May 1675 |
| Description | Wishes to know who should be entrusted with the original diploma of election to guarantee delivery of it to Slusius; that Boyle had published his 'Tracts about hidden qualities of the air'; that Wallis had published a dissertation on the gravity of fluids; that Malpighi's treatise had arrived which was illustrated with 54 phytological plates and instructed the Society to publish it; details a mathematical problem sent by Davenant |
| Language | Latin |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Place origin | London, England |
| Origin coordinates | 51.50853, -0.12574 |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | Transcribed and translated in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall & Marie Boas Hall, vol 11, p 312.
See MS/103 for Malpighi's treatise |
| URLDescription | Also available on Early Modern Letters Online |
| URL | http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/682d0773-bc5f-4093-9d8a-4b15e5b1e666 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA5659 | Slusius; Renatus Franciscus (1622 - 1685); mathematician and clergyman | 1622 - 1685 |
| NA8001 | Oldenburg; Henry (c 1619 - 1677); natural philosopher and scientific correspondent | c 1619 - 1677 |