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RefNoEL/V/36
LevelItem
TitleLetter, from Joannes Weichard Valvasor to the Royal Society
CreatorValvasour; Johann Weichard (1641-1693); soldier
Date17 November 1687
DescriptionDetails of the lake at Zirknitz in Carniola [Lake Cerknica, Slovenia] with subterraneous passages
Engraving attached
Read to the Royal Society on 14 December 1687
LanguageLatin
Extent28p
FormatManuscript
Engraving
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialJBO/8/171
English translation printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 16, no 191, p 411
Acta Eruditorum, Leipzig, 1689 pp 634-644
CMC Vol 2 pp 97-8
JBC Vol 7, pp 70-73, and meeting 11 January 1688
JBC Vol 7, pp 74, 76, 98-99
URLDescriptionAlso available on Early Modern Letters Online
URLhttp://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/4883ceb4-ff08-439b-9892-96b81aa70da2
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA4522Valvasor; Johann Weikhard (1641 - 1693); Freiherr von; natural historian and polymath1641 - 1693
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