Early Letters and Classified Papers, 1606-1740.

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Early Letters and Classified Papers, 1606-1740.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80601758

The letters collect the Society's official correspondence from its founding to 1740, and includes correspondence by the period's most famous scientific names, including: Robert Boyle, Jean Dominique Cassini, Magnus Celsius, John Flamsteed, Regnier de Graaf, Stephen Gray, Edmund Halley, Johannes Hevelius, Robert Hooke, Christian Huygens, Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Martin Lister, John Locke, Cotton Mather, William Molyneux, Isaac Newton, Franz de le Böe Sylvius, Raymond Vieussens, and John Wallis. The Classified Papers assemble original papers, letters, and memoranda submitted to the Society. The guardbooks are broken into 25 classifications that cover a phenomenal range of early scientific exploration:

4,237 letters, 39 guardbooks (volumes of mounted papers).

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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