Enquiries propounded to & answered by Mr Gray : yt hath been severall times in Greenland / broft in by Mr Oldenburg. [ca. 1667]

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Enquiries propounded to & answered by Mr Gray : yt hath been severall times in Greenland / broft in by Mr Oldenburg. [ca. 1667]

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Manuscript text of questions about Greenland posed to a "Mr. Gray" by the Royal Society, and his answers to them, all apparently transcribed by Society secretary Henry Oldenburg. Oldenburg served as the Society's secretary from 1660 to his death in 1677, published the journal Philosophical Transactions, and was an influential friend and editor of Newton, Boyle, Spinoze, Flamsteed and others. Many of the questions included here were also published in Philosophical Transactions 29 (11 November 1667), pp. 554-555. The identity of Mr. Gray is unknown, though it is possible he was a ship's captain, as the questions published in 1667 mention that they are seeking "English Masters of Ships, and other fit persons, that shall sail into Greenland for the whale-fishing" to answer their queries.

[4] p. ; 30 x 19 cm.

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Oldenburg, Henry, approximately 1615-1677

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The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge began in 1645 when a group of eminent British thinkers started to meet regularly in London to discuss the new, experimental philosophies of science. Though the English Civil War and the Cromwellian Protectorate interrupted its meetings, the Society was formally constituted in 1660. Two years later King Charles II granted the Society its first charter. A second royal charter was granted in 1663 when the Society was given its official nam...