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Reference numberEL/H3/14
LevelItem
TitleLetter, from Thomas Henshaw to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Copenhagen
CreatorHenshaw; Thomas (1618-1700); alchemist; writer
Date4 February 1673
DescriptionAccount about a certain man called Triboulet; discussing two pieces of Iceland crystal from Erasmus Bartholin; discussing amber from Holstein, north-west Germany; discussing charcoal; notification of a work about the Faroes by a priest written in Danish with other literary notices
LanguageEnglish
Extent3p
FormatManuscript
Place originCopenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark
Origin coordinates55.67594, 12.56553
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Access statusOpen
Related materialTranscribed in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall, vol 9, p 448
URL descriptionAlso available on Early Modern Letters Online
URLhttp://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/a06e50f3-c4d2-4929-828a-c23d3c585578
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8001Oldenburg; Henry (c1619 - 1677); scientific correspondentc1619 - 1677
NA8237Henshaw; Thomas (1618 - 1700); alchemist and writer1618 - 1700
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