Letter, from Christian Huygens to Robert Moray, dated at Paris
Reference number: EL/H1/22
Date: 11 November 1663
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Concerning two clocks for use at sea; concerning the non-descent of mercury in a tube ('purged mercury of all air')
- Reference number
- EL/H1/22
- Earliest possible date
- 11 November 1663
- Page extent
- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Christiaan Huygens
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Christiaan Huygens, Christiaan Huygens, Letter, from Christian Huygens to Robert Moray, dated at Paris, 11 November 1663, EL/H1/22, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_h1_22/letter-from-christian-huygens-to-robert-moray-dated-at-paris, accessed on 15 November 2025
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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
1613-1740 Reference number: EL -
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Robert Moray
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Christiaan Huygens
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