Letter unpublished written by Giovanni POLENI, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences to James JURIN, member of the Royal Society of London, Padua, 7th August 1730. Translation and commentary.

lettre poleni à jurinThis letter was found in the Archives of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris. Giovanni Poleni wrote to James Jurin to know the Science’s news in London and to ask him to bring back his little memory bout the pendulum and the Graham’s commentary by about it.  Poleni wants also the twenty-four last numbers of Transactiones Philosophicae in which of them, his meteorological observations (made in Padua) are published. Continuer la lecture