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137. - Oldenburg, Henry (c. 1618/19–1677)

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2025

By
Stephen Harrop
Edited by
Karolina Hübner  and
Justin Steinberg
Karolina Hübner
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Justin Steinberg
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Henry (né Heinrich) Oldenburg was a diplomat, one of the first Secretaries of the Royal Society of London, and the founder of its journal, the Philosophical Transactions. His correspondence was truly vast. It includes letters to and from such figures as John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, Robert Boyle, Christiaan Huygens, John Wallis, Robert Hooke, Giovanni Cassini, Gottfried Leibniz, Isaac Newton, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, John Locke, Edmond Halley, and many, many more. This includes, of course, Spinoza, who wrote more letters to Oldenburg than any other of his correspondents. Their exchange runs from 1661 until 1677, with a hiatus between 1665 and 1675.

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The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon , pp. 395 - 396
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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De Beer, E. S. 1938. “The earliest Fellows of the Royal Society.” Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 15, 79–93.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hall, M. B. (2002). Henry Oldenburg: Shaping the Royal Society. Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Oldenburg, H. (1965–1986). The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, ed. and trans. Hall, A. R. and Hall, M. B.. 13 vols. University of Wisconsin Press (vols. i–ix); Mansell (vols. x–xi); Taylor & Francis (vols. xii–xiii).Google Scholar

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