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Reference numberEL/B1/114
LevelItem
TitleLetter, from John Borelli to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Messina, Italy
CreatorBorelli; Giovanni Alfonso (1608-1679); Italian physiologist; physicist; mathematician
Date10 April 1671
DescriptionBorelli sends copies of his work 'De motionibus naturalibus a gravitate pendentibus' and 16 copies of his work on the eruption of Mount Etna; he also sends other works for John Collins
Read to the Royal Society on 2 November 1671
LanguageLatin
Extent1p
FormatManuscript
Place originMessina, Sicily, Italy
Origin coordinates38.19327, 15.54969
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Access statusOpen
Related materialTranscribed in LBO/4/373
Transcribed and translated in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall, vol 7, p 543
URL descriptionAlso available on Early Modern Letters Online
URLhttp://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/bc9f874c-77d6-48f7-b429-d2f28c2811a3
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8001Oldenburg; Henry (c1619 - 1677); scientific correspondentc1619 - 1677
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