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A Cypher of Mons. Christian Huygens de Zulichem

Reference number: RBO/4/14

Date: 4 February 1669

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'Containing an Invention of his, which he not thought fit to make publick as yet, but would secure it to himself this way; which he sent to the Royal Society in a letter of his dated 6 February 1669 (st. no.) and exhibited to the said Society 4 February 1669'

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RBO/4/14
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4 February 1669
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1 page
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Manuscript

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A Cypher of Mons. Christian Huygens de Zulichem, 4 February 1669, RBO/4/14, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_4_14/a-cypher-of-mons-christian-huygens-de-zulichem, accessed on 18 April 2025

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