Record

RefNoEL/C3/29
LevelItem
TitleTranslation of a letter, from Francois de la Croix to Cromwell Mortimer, dated at Versailles
CreatorSauvages de Lacroix; Franois Boissier de (1706-1776); French physician; botanist
Date1736
DescriptionDe la Croix states that he is sending copies of the explanations of the extract on his mechanism of the motion of floating bodies and would like to know who from the Royal Society is going to examine it
Read to the Royal Society on 31 August 1736
LanguageEnglish
Extent1p
Place originVersailles, le-de-France, France
Origin coordinates48.8, 2.13333
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialFor the original see EL/C3/28
URLDescriptionAlso available on Early Modern Letters Online
URLhttp://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/f4eeefbd-3568-48c5-90e6-8aab69b5bede
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8055Mortimer; Cromwell (c 1699 - 1752)c 1699 - 1752
NA6825Sauvages de la Croix; Francois Boissier (1706 - ? 1767)1706 - ? 1767
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