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RefNoEL/W2/63
LevelItem
TitleLetter, from John Wallis to Hans Sloane
CreatorWallis; John (1616-1703); mathematician; cryptographer; Savilian Professor of Geometry, University of Oxford
Date11 January 1698
DescriptionAccount of the effects of thunder, lightning and hail on several people who were killed in Northamptonshire on 27 July 1691
Read to the Royal Society on 19 January 1697
LanguageEnglish
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialPrinted in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 20, no 236, p 5
URLDescriptionAlso available on Early Modern Letters Online
URLhttp://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/7970144c-d763-4890-a392-d68314572565
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8406Sloane; Sir; Hans (1660 - 1753); physician and collector1660 - 1753
NA7472Wallis; John (1616 - 1703); mathematician and cryptographer1616 - 1703
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