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Note on Monsieur de la Hire's new machine by Henry Justel

Reference number: EL/I1/114

Date: 1687

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Concerning Monsieur de la Hire's new machine to find the variation of the magnetical needle so that it could be used at sea; about the publication of the history of China with a map of the city of Peking [Beijing]
Read to the Royal Society on 8 June 1687

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EL/I1/114
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1687
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1 page
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Manuscript

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Henry Justel

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Henry Justel, Note on Monsieur de la Hire's new machine by Henry Justel, 1687, EL/I1/114, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_i1_114/note-on-monsieur-de-la-hires-new-machine-by-henry-justel, accessed on 12 January 2025

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