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Letter, from John Wallis to Robert Moray

Reference number: EL/W1/12

Date: December

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Several notices - about a new chariot with one horse which can draw two men easily; experiment of walking in a wheel proposed by Robert Hooke; details of a newly-found mine of 315 feet

Reference number
EL/W1/12
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December
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript
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John Wallis

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John Wallis, Letter, from John Wallis to Robert Moray, December, EL/W1/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_w1_12/letter-from-john-wallis-to-robert-moray, accessed on 26 January 2025

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    Dates: 1613-1740

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