Letter, from Christian Huygens to Robert Moray, dated at the Hague

Reference number: EL/H1/42

Date: 02 January 1665

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Concerning a new instrument for grinding lenses; new vehicles for travel; concerning his universal measure; concerning a portable thermometer; concerns measuring the refractions of the sun; concerning Hooke's instrument for measuring the descent of falling bodies; observations of the comet
Read to the Royal Society on 4 January 1665

Reference number: EL/H1/42
Earliest possible date: 02 January 1665
Page extent: 8 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Christiaan Huygens

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Christiaan Huygens, Letter, from Christian Huygens to Robert Moray, dated at the Hague, 02 January 1665, EL/H1/42, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_h1_42/letter-from-christian-huygens-to-robert-moray-dated-at-the-hague, accessed on 14 September 2024

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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
Early Letters H1
1661-1676 Reference number: EL/H1

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Robert Moray
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Christiaan Huygens
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