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Reference numberEL/S1/112
LevelItem
TitleLetter, from Georg Stiernhielm to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Stockholm
CreatorStiernhielm; Georg (1598-1672); German mathematician; writer
Date17 May 1670
DescriptionThanks for being elected to the Fellowship; details of the gardener to the Queen of Sweden at Drottningsholm, Erich Biornsson, who was revived after being trapped under the ice of a lake for 15 hours
Read to the Royal Society on 3 November 1670
LanguageLatin
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
Place originStockholm, Stockholm Municipality, Sweden
Origin coordinates59.33258, 18.0649
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Access statusOpen
Related materialTranscribed and translated in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall & Marie Boas Hall, vol 7, p 14
URL descriptionAlso available on Early Modern Letters Online
URLhttp://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/3c643699-d449-4d59-97a2-b768df3b0b66
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8001Oldenburg; Henry (c1619 - 1677); scientific correspondentc1619 - 1677
NA4336Stiernhielm; Georg (1598 - 1672); poet and scholar1598 - 1672
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