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  <dc:title>Letter, from Johannes Hevelius to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Danzig (Gdansk)</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Praises the Royal Society; states that he will send his 'Cometographia' when it is published; states that a catalogue of fixed stars must be realised before any further work can take place; states that he is working on his 'Machina Coelestis' but that he needs the observations of King Ulug-Beg, which are found in a Persian manuscript in Oxford</dc:description>
  <dc:date>4 January 1664</dc:date>
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