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  <dc:title>Translation of a letter, from Christian Huygens to Robert Moray</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Original letter no longer exists but was dated 31 October 1664
Discussing the rise and fall of mercury, and Slusius of Liege's thermometer; doubts Campani's tool for grinding lenses, and asks about the production of large lenses; expects a parcel of glass from his father, that the Parisians are impressed with his father's microscope, and that his father was impressed with Campani's telescope</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1664</dc:date>
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