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RefNoL&P/6/213
LevelItem
TitleLetter, 'Account of a portrait of Copernicus presented by him to the Society' from Nathaniel Matthew Wolf to John Hyacinth de Magellan
Date7 April 1776
Description5 pages in French, with 4 pages of English translation.

Subject: Correspondence

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a portrait of Copernicus, presented to the Royal Society by Dr. Wolf of Dantzick: extracted from a letter of his to Mr. Magellan, F.R.S'

Read 12 December 1776
LanguageFrench
Extent9p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1777.0005
URLDescriptionDigital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library
URLhttps://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-9669
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA2619Wolf; Nathaniel Matthew (1728 - 1784)1728 - 1784
NA8072Magellan; John Hyacinth de (1722 - 1790)1722 - 1790
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