GB 0117 MS/1 - Liber epistolaris: a commonplace book of Henry Oldenburg

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GB 0117 MS/1

Titel

Liber epistolaris: a commonplace book of Henry Oldenburg

Datum(s)

  • 1655-1661 (Vervaardig)

Beschrijvingsniveau

Omvang en medium

206 ff.

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Biografie

Education: School and University at Bremen; MTh (1639); Oxford (entered 1656). Career: Lived in England (1640-1648); travelled on the continent, returning to Bremen (1652); sent by the Council of Bremen to negotiate with Cromwell (1653); Tutor to Henry, son of Barnabas O'Brien, 6th Earl of Thomond, and Richard Jones (FRS 1663), son of Robert Boyle's sister, Catherine, Lady Ranelagh; accompanied Jones to France and Germany (1657-1660); published 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society' (1665-1677); imprisoned in the Tower of London (1667) on suspicion that his extensive foreign correspondence was political, rather than scientific; worked as a translator (1670).

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GB 0117 MS/1 1655-1661 Collection (fonds) 206 ff. Oldenburg , Henry [Heinrich] , c 1617-1677 , scientific correspondent and Secretary of the Royal Society

Education: School and University at Bremen; MTh (1639); Oxford (entered 1656). Career: Lived in England (1640-1648); travelled on the continent, returning to Bremen (1652); sent by the Council of Bremen to negotiate with Cromwell (1653); Tutor to Henry, son of Barnabas O'Brien, 6th Earl of Thomond, and Richard Jones (FRS 1663), son of Robert Boyle's sister, Catherine, Lady Ranelagh; accompanied Jones to France and Germany (1657-1660); published 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society' (1665-1677); imprisoned in the Tower of London (1667) on suspicion that his extensive foreign correspondence was political, rather than scientific; worked as a translator (1670).

Copy letters and notes by Henry Oldenburg, first Secretary of the Royal Society, prefaced by a note on the volume's presentation by James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton.

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English, Italian and Latin

Quarter bound in brown leather, brown cloth boards. 195x148mm.

Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Feb 2009. Learned societies Information sources Documents Commonplace books Manuscripts History of science Oldenburg , Henry [Heinrich] , c 1617-1677 , scientific correspondent and secretary of the Royal Society Associations Science of science Organizations

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Copy letters and notes by Henry Oldenburg, first Secretary of the Royal Society, prefaced by a note on the volume's presentation by James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton.

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Open

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No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

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  • Engels

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  • Latijn

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English, Italian and Latin

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Royal Society

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General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

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  • Engels

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