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RefNoEL/M3/24
LevelItem
TitleExtract of a letter, from Pierre Maupertuis to Andreas Celsius, dated at Paris
CreatorMaupertuis; Pierre-Louis Moreau de (1698-1759); French mathematician; philosopher; man of letters; director, Acadmie des Sciences; president of the Prussian Academy of Science
Date1735
DescriptionSuggesting West Bothnia as the best place for making observations of the figure of the earth in the northern expedition; that Maupertuis wished for a model of Bradley's instrument for observing the transits of fixed stars and Graham's astronomical pendulum clock
Original was dated at 22 November 1735
LanguageEnglish
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
Place originParis, le-de-France, France
Origin coordinates48.85341, 2.3488
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialEL/C2 and EL/C3 for letters from Celsius on this expedition
URLDescriptionAlso available on Early Modern Letters Online
URLhttp://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/62bcc4c7-a2d1-4344-b6f7-9b09a459491e
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6791Celsius; Andreas (1701 - 1744)1701 - 1744
NA7795Maupertuis; Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698 - 1759)1698 - 1759
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