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RefNoEL/W3/51
LevelItem
TitleLetter, from Nicolaus Witsen to Henry Oldenburg
CreatorWitsen; Nicholaes Corneliszoon (1651-1717); Dutch politician; collector; mayor of Amsterdam; administrator of the Dutch East India Company
Date1671
DescriptionSends a book about Ceylon and has added the Russian alphabet and sketch of the city of Novgorod to it; postscript states that he will send the anatomical sketches of a silkworm and bee by Jan Swammerdam
LanguageLatin
Extent1p
FormatManuscript
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialTranscription in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall & Marie Boas Hall, vol 8, p 396
URLDescriptionAlso available on Early Modern Letters Online
URLhttp://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/d76df9a5-0b70-4361-8ec7-8331f0476aa3
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CodePersonNameDates
NA8001Oldenburg; Henry (c1619 - 1677); scientific correspondentc1619 - 1677
NA8030Witsen; Nicolaus (1641 - 1717); statesman and collector1641 - 1717
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