Letters found inside a beech tree
Date
30 September 1672
Creator
Salomon Reisel (1624 - 1701, German) , Physician
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p415a
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 306mm
width (page): 108mm
width (page): 108mm
Subject
Description
Figure of letters found in a beech tree from a letter by Salomon Reisel, chief physician to Frederick Casimir, Count of Hanau, dated 30 September 1672. The account was read to the Royal Society on 11 December 1672.
A copy of this figure can be found at LBC/5/463.
A copy of this figure can be found at LBC/5/463.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 11 December 1672, ‘Mr. Schroter produced two letters in Latin to the Society, delivered to him lately in Germany, by one Dr. Salomon Reisel, archiater to Frederic Casimir count of Hanaw, the one dated 30th September, the other 1st October, 1672; the former containing a relation concerning many capital letters found in both sides of a piece of beech-tree, cleft asunder, between the pith and bark; the latter discoursing about some vulgar errors. Which letters were ordered to be entered in the Letter-book’ (Birch 3:69).
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