| Reference number | EL/A/21 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter, from Adrian Auzout to Henry Oldenburg |
| Date | 17 March 1668 |
| Description | Informing Henry Oldenburg that M de la Voye was on board M de Beaumort's flagship with Mr Huygen's pendulums and was awaiting news about how they worked
There are also details about a French foot measure which Auzout sent to a person (unidentified in letter)
Some discussion of an hermaphrodite, a report about which had been published in 'Philosophical Transactions', number 32, pages 624-625
Subject: Physics; Physiology |
| Language | French |
| Extent | 3p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | Transcribed and translated in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall & Marie Boas Hall, vol 4, pp 226-229 |
| Related records in the catalogue | LBO/27/10 |
| URL description | Also available on Early Modern Letters Online |
| URL | http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/c32f7e23-4f7e-413d-9219-0886004e562b |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA2328 | Auzout; Adrian (1622 - 1691); physician and astronomer | 1622 - 1691 |
| NA8001 | Oldenburg; Henry (c1619 - 1677); scientific correspondent | c1619 - 1677 |