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Reference numberEL/B1/93
LevelItem
TitleLetter, from Robert Boyle to Henry Oldenburg
CreatorBoyle; Robert (1627-1691); natural philosopher
Date14 October 1665
DescriptionAutograph letter with details of the meeting of members of the Royal Society eg. what papers were read and Boyle's experiment of suspending mercury in a pipe open at both ends and experiments with 'oil of tobacco' and animals
LanguageEnglish
Extent3p
FormatManuscript
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Access statusOpen
Related materialTranscribed in LBO/28/39
Printed in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall, vol 2, p 569
URL descriptionAlso available on Early Modern Letters Online
URLhttp://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/01bfb6bd-0950-40b7-b1fe-933636af28f9
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8001Oldenburg; Henry (c1619 - 1677); scientific correspondentc1619 - 1677
NA8137Boyle; Robert (1627 - 1691); natural philosopher and chemist1627 - 1691
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