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Extract of a letter, from Christian Huygens to Robert Moray, dated at the Hague

Reference number: EL/H1/36

Date: 01 January 1664

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Copy by Henry Oldenburg
Discussing the property of colours; discussing his new pendulum clock; discussing an instrument for measuring the descent of bodies (figure in text); discussing new observations of Saturn (figure in text) from a book sent to him with a letter from Rome

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EL/H1/36
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01 January 1664
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4 pages
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Manuscript
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Christiaan Huygens

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Christiaan Huygens, Christiaan Huygens, Extract of a letter, from Christian Huygens to Robert Moray, dated at the Hague, 01 January 1664, EL/H1/36, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_h1_36/extract-of-a-letter-from-christian-huygens-to-robert-moray-dated-at-the-hague, accessed on 12 February 2026

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