Record

RefNoEL/C2/1
LevelItem
TitleLetter, from Juan Cruzado to Henry Oldenburg
CreatorCruzado; Juan (fl 1675)
Date20 August 1675
DescriptionCruzado discusses:
- a new place for the prime meridian of the globe
- testing the equal revolution of the natural day with his pendulum clock
- ascertaining the moon's place on land and at sea
- the longitude of Seville
These points are reiterated in EL/C2/2
Read to the Royal Society on 28 October 1675
LanguageLatin
Extent3p
FormatManuscript
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialTranscribed in LBO/7/272
Transcribed and translated in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall, vol 11, p 444
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 10, no 118, p 425
URLDescriptionAlso available on Early Modern Letters Online
URLhttp://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/4055ec23-e43c-42a9-8476-23a7645dfd77
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8001Oldenburg; Henry (c1619 - 1677); scientific correspondentc1619 - 1677
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