Letter, from Christian Huygens to Robert Moray, dated at the Hague
Reference number: EL/H1/40
Date: 21 November 1664
Description
Concerning Hooke's and Campani's methods of grinding lenses; discussing the universal measure, pendulum clocks (figure in text); Hooke's instrument for measuring the refractions of liquids and another instrument for measuring the descent of heavy bodies
Read to the Royal Society on 23 November 1664
- Reference number
- EL/H1/40
- Earliest possible date
- 21 November 1664
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- 7 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 the Hague, 21 November 1664, EL/H1/40, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_h1_40/letter-from-christian-huygens-to-robert-moray-dated-at-the-hague, accessed on 13 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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