Conjoined calves
Date
30 June 1669
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p1
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height (page): 370mm
width (page): 224mm
width (page): 224mm
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Figures of conjoined calves in a letter from Samuel Colepress to Henry Oldenburg dated 30 June 1669, Leiden. Colepress described two conjoined calves, which were being shown for the price of 2 stuivers at a 'kermis' or fair in Leiden three weeks earlier.
Samuel Colepress was a native of Plympton St Mar, outside Plymouth. Through Sir William Strode he became acquainted with Robert Boyle, whom he visited in London in the winter of 1666/7 when he probably also met Oldenburg. Colepress went to Leiden to study medicine in the spring of 1668, but appears to have died there in 1669. Despite his interests, he was never FRS (Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, ed. by Hall and Hall, vol. III, p. 311n).
Samuel Colepress was a native of Plympton St Mar, outside Plymouth. Through Sir William Strode he became acquainted with Robert Boyle, whom he visited in London in the winter of 1666/7 when he probably also met Oldenburg. Colepress went to Leiden to study medicine in the spring of 1668, but appears to have died there in 1669. Despite his interests, he was never FRS (Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, ed. by Hall and Hall, vol. III, p. 311n).
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Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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