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September 21, 1664. Dr. Wren being desired to defer no longer the making of a larger telescopical moon for the Society, promised to do it against his next coming to London; upon which it was ordered that the treasurer should pay for a globe of that size, which Dr. Wren should choose at Mr. Moxon's. Several experiments were made. [Oldenburg, in a letter to Boyle, dated at London, September 22, 1664, gives some account of what passed at this meeting, where, he observes, they had the company of a Parisian academist, recommended to Sir Robert Moray and himself. I dare say (he says) he will extol our institution and proceedings to the sky, whensoever he comes; though I must say we grow more remiss and careless than I am willing to expatiate upon. Yet this I must say to a person, that I am sure hath a concern for our prosperity, that nothing is done with the king for us.]
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Early Science at the Royal Society. Nature 114, 451 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114451a0
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