RefNo | EL/H1/43 |
Level | Item |
Title | Copy of a letter, from Christian Huygens to Robert Moray |
Creator | Huygens; Christiaan (1629-1695); Dutch physicist; mathematician; astonomer |
Date | 1665 |
Description | Concerning a new instrument for grinding lenses; new vehicles for travel; concerning his universal measure; concerning a portable thermometer; concerns measuring the refractions of the sun; concerning Hooke's instrument for measuring the descent of falling bodies; observations of the comet in 1664 (with figures) |
Language | French |
Extent | 4p |
Format | Manuscript |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | Original is EL/H1/42 |
URLDescription | Also available on Early Modern Letters Online |
URL | http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/09c28be3-6c7b-40e1-b3f3-cdf2ba0281c2 |
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 |