| Reference number | EL/H3/23 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter, from Luke Hodgson to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Newcastle |
| Creator | Hodgson; Luke (1646-); Quaker; physician |
| Date | 15 May 1676 |
| Description | Answers to questions set by Robert Boyle about smouldering coalpits near Newcastle and then compares it to Mount Etna; sends a box of the different salts found in the coalpit
Account of the 'spirit of sugar'
Read to the Royal Society on 2 November 1676 |
| Language | English |
| Extent | 5p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Place origin | Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England |
| Origin coordinates | 54.97328, -1.61396 |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | Transcribed in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall, vol 12, p 288
Partially printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 11, no 130, p 762 |
| URL description | Also available on Early Modern Letters Online |
| URL | http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/a8737ff3-4451-41d3-a12a-4c88dc79f4f8 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8001 | Oldenburg; Henry (c1619 - 1677); scientific correspondent | c1619 - 1677 |