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RefNoEL/H1/70
LevelItem
TitleLetter, from Christian Huygens to Henry Oldenburg, dated at the Hague
CreatorHuygens; Christiaan (1629-1695); Dutch physicist; mathematician; astonomer
DateOctober 1670
DescriptionDiscussing Wallis's new treatise; concerning the discovery of a new star in Cygnus; concerns observations of Saturn with his 22-foot telescope, and looks forward to obaining the observations of Hooke and of Hevelius; introduces the work of de Monceaux, who has made observations whilst in the Levant, and states that he will be arriving at the Royal Society
Read to the Royal Society on 27 October 1670
LanguageFrench
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
Place originThe Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
Origin coordinates52.07667, 4.29861
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialTranscribed and translated in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall & Marie Boas Hall, vol 7, p 216
URLDescriptionAlso available on Early Modern Letters Online
URLhttp://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/b0f9fdc3-f8c7-4f64-b7d2-6de6c4df7df0
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8001Oldenburg; Henry (c1619 - 1677); scientific correspondentc1619 - 1677
NA8062Huygens; Christiaan (1629 - 1695); natural philosopher1629 - 1695
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