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RefNoEL/W4/7
LevelItem
TitleTranslation of a letter, from Christian Wolff to William Rutty, dated at Marpurg
CreatorWolff; Christian von (1679-1754); German philosopher; mathematician
Date1731
DescriptionSends second part of 'Cosmologia generalis'; account of a post-mortem of a man who died from a stone falling on his stomach, with particular details about a ruptured intestine
Read to the Royal Society on 28 October 1731
LanguageEnglish
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
Place originMarburg, (Upper Rhenish Imperial Circle) Hesse, Germany, (Holy Roman Empire)
Origin coordinates50.80904, 8.77069
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialOriginal is EL/W4/6
URLDescriptionAlso available on Early Modern Letters Online
URLhttp://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/78d6a03a-c91d-4131-a7fd-14b5402ca759
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA518Rutty; William (1687 - 1730)1687 - 1730
NA805Wolff; Christian (1679 - 1754); Freiherr von1679 - 1754
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