Letter, from Christian Huygens to Robert Moray, dated at the Hague
Reference number: EL/H1/9
Date: 10 February 1662
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Concerning properties of the cycloid; experiments of a vacuum; the establishment of universal measure; maintaining a table for the equation of time
Read to the Royal Society on 12 March 1662
- Reference number
- EL/H1/9
- Earliest possible date
- 10 February 1662
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- 6 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Christiaan Huygens, Letter, from Christian Huygens to Robert Moray, dated at the Hague, 10 February 1662, EL/H1/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_h1_9/letter-from-christian-huygens-to-robert-moray-dated-at-the-hague, accessed on 11 December 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 -
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Robert Moray
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Christiaan Huygens
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