RefNo | EL/B1/93 |
Level | Item |
Title | Letter, from Robert Boyle to Henry Oldenburg |
Creator | Boyle; Robert (1627-1691); natural philosopher |
Date | 14 October 1665 |
Description | Autograph letter with details of the meeting of members of the Royal Society eg. what papers were read and Boyle's experiment of suspending mercury in a pipe open at both ends and experiments with 'oil of tobacco' and animals |
Language | English |
Extent | 3p |
Format | Manuscript |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | Transcribed in LBO/28/13 Printed in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall, vol 2, p 569 |
RelatedRecord | LBO/28/13 |
URLDescription | Also available on Early Modern Letters Online |
URL | http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/01bfb6bd-0950-40b7-b1fe-933636af28f9 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8001 | Oldenburg; Henry (c1619 - 1677); scientific correspondent | c1619 - 1677 |
NA8137 | Boyle; Robert (1627 - 1691); natural philosopher and chemist | 1627 - 1691 |