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RefNoEL/H4/31
LevelItem
TitleTranslated extract of a letter, of Francis Joseph Hunauld to Thomas Stack, dated at Paris
CreatorHunauld; Francis Joseph (1701-1742)
Date1737
DescriptionOriginal letter was in French and dated 23 September 1737

States that the astronomers who went to the Northern Expedition have returned and have confirmed that the earth is flat at the poles; experiments with pigeons which have been bitten by vipers

Read to the Royal Society on 27 October 1737
LanguageEnglish
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
Place originParis, le-de-France, France
Origin coordinates48.85341, 2.3488
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AccessStatusOpen
URLDescriptionAlso available on Early Modern Letters Online
URLhttp://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/07e89f7a-ffab-46c7-8942-d35cd226a251
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CodePersonNameDates
NA1112Hunauld; Francis Joseph (1701 - 1742)1701 - 1742
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