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Letter, from Robert des Gabetz to du May

Reference number: EL/G1/32

Date: 01 January 1669

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Discussing the Copernican system; discussing perpetual motion; concerning Huygens's pendulum clock; discussing ways to navigate at sea with a new instrument.
Figures in text.
Read on 2 December 1669

Reference number
EL/G1/32
Earliest possible date
01 January 1669
Page extent
6 pages
Format
Manuscript
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Robert des Gabetz

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Robert des Gabetz, Letter, from Robert des Gabetz to du May, 01 January 1669, EL/G1/32, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_g1_32/letter-from-robert-des-gabetz-to-du-may, accessed on 12 May 2025

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