Interior of a beech tree
Date
30 September 1672
Creator
Salomon Reisel (1624 - 1701, German) , Physician
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p415c
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 145mm
width (page): 192mm
width (page): 192mm
Description
This image depicts an interior section of a beech tree where figures of letters were found (LBO/5/415a-b). This is 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.
This image is copied in LBC/5/465a.
This image is copied in LBC/5/465a.
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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