RefNo | EL/H1/41 |
Level | Item |
Title | Copy of a letter, from Christian Huygens to Robert Moray |
Creator | Huygens; Christiaan (1629-1695); Dutch physicist; mathematician; astonomer |
Date | 1664 |
Description | Concerning Hooke's and Campani's methods for grinding lenses; discussing the universal measure, pendulum clocks (figure in text); Hooke's instrument for measuring the refractions of liquids and another instrument for measuring the descent of heavy bodies |
Language | French |
Extent | 4p |
Format | Manuscript |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | Original is EL/H1/40 |
URLDescription | Also available on Early Modern Letters Online |
URL | http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/657b351b-4dca-4e9e-8df6-8232478245ed |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8261 | Moray; Sir; Robert (1608 - 1673); army officer and politician | 1608 - 1673 |
NA8062 | Huygens; Christiaan (1629 - 1695); natural philosopher | 1629 - 1695 |