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

Reference number: EL/H1/5

Date: 04 November 1661

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Concerning Thomas Hobbes's 'Dialogue' and Digby's book of vegetation; concerning the differences with Frenicle about the form of Saturn; discussing his pneumatic engine

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EL/H1/5
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04 November 1661
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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, Letter, from Christian Huygens to Robert Moray, dated at the Hague, 04 November 1661, EL/H1/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_h1_5/letter-from-christian-huygens-to-robert-moray-dated-at-the-hague, accessed on 13 August 2026

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