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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

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EL/H1/9
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10 February 1662
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6 pages
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Manuscript

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Christiaan Huygens

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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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