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Royal Society : Society minutes

"In late 1686 [Edmond] Halley ... sent [John] Wallis the original Royal Society minutes -- 'I have no Copy of the Inclosed minutes, which are as they were read before the Society, therefore I pray you to conceal any thing you shall not think proper to be publickly read, and to send them to me again in your next.'"

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Royal Society     Manuscript: Unknown

Royal Society : paper on the causes of the Noachian deluge

" ... [Edmond] Halley's paper on the causes of the Noachian deluge was finally printed in the Philosophical Transactions some thirty years after being read at the [Royal] Society ..."

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Royal Society     

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