Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15893

    Experiments on the reintegration of nitre

    Date
    April 1662
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p8
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 206mm
    width (page): 161mm
    Subject
    Physics
       > Vacuum physics
          > Pneumatics
    Description
    Diagrams relating to experiments for the re-integration of nitre and the pressure of air, in a letter from Benedict de Spinoza to Henry Oldenburg.
    Object history
    According to Birch, Spinoza's correspondence with Oldenburg is only acknowledged in the latter's obituary (not in the minutes of the meeting) as starting in 1665 (Birch 3:354). However, this letter indicates there was correspondence between the two prior to 1665.
    Related fellows
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Associated place
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          > Netherlands
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