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RefNoEL/H1/35
LevelItem
TitleLetter, from Christian Huygens to Robert Moray, dated at the Hague
CreatorHuygens; Christiaan (1629-1695); Dutch physicist; mathematician; astonomer
Date29 August 1664
DescriptionDiscussing the property of colours; discussing his new pendulum clock; discussing an instrument for measuring the descent of bodies (figure in text); discussing new observations of Saturn (figure in text) from a book sent to him with a letter from Rome

Read to the Royal Society on 31 August 1664

Pencil note reads that the pages are 'inverted' ie not in the correct reading order
LanguageFrench
Extent7p
FormatManuscript
Place originThe Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
Origin coordinates52.07667, 4.29861
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialTranscribed in LBO/1/183
Copy of letter see EL/H1/36
URLDescriptionAlso available on Early Modern Letters Online
URLhttp://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/0d7792b8-4df5-4adf-8200-017a82af2707
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8261Moray; Sir; Robert (1608 - 1673); army officer and politician1608 - 1673
NA8062Huygens; Christiaan (1629 - 1695); natural philosopher1629 - 1695
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