Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15693

    A piece of talc from Iceland

    Date
    15 September 1676
    Creator
    Constantijn Huygens (1596 - 1687, Dutch) , Scholar
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p1
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (Page): 195mm
    width (Page): 150mm
    Subject
    Description
    A letter from Constantijn Huygens (Sr) to Henry Oldenburg in which he describes a piece of talc (hydrous magnesium silicate) that his son brought from Iceland and that refracts double.
    Related fellows
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > Iceland
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