| Reference number | EL/A/5 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter, from Adrian Auzout to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Paris |
| Date | 22 June 1665 |
| Description | Considerations of Auzout about Robert Hooke's machine for grinding optic lenses and discussion of lengths and apertures of lenses for telescopes.
Subject: Optometry |
| Language | French |
| Extent | 10p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Ink on paper |
| Place origin | Paris, le-de-France, France |
| Origin coordinates | 48.85341, 2.3488 |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1665.0028
Philosophical Transactions, vol 1, no 4, pp 56-62 contains Auzout's critique of Hooke's lens-grinding machine. |
| 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg' ed and trans by A Rupert Hall & Marie Boas Hall, vol 2, pp 410-427 |
| Related records in the catalogue | LBO/27/3 |
| URL description | Also available on Early Modern Letters Online |
| URL | http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/ce0b2504-50b6-4a29-91a7-3de0d1053fdd |
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 |
| NA8242 | Hooke; Robert (1635 - 1703); natural philosopher | 1635 - 1703 |