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  <dc:title>Unpublished letter, regarding 'A curious fact' from Joshua Hathaway to the Secretary of the Royal Society</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Letter received by the Royal Society as a result of a statement, titled 'A Curious Fact' (see AP/10 for description). Hathaway begins by quoting the problem as seen in a local newspaper, and then provides his solution, attributing the phenomenon to the 'fluid' of air on the upper card, counteracting the force of breath blowing on the lower card.

Subject: Physics

Written by Hathaway in Rome, Oneida County, New York [United States].</dc:description>
  <dc:date>28 January 1834</dc:date>
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