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  <dc:title>Letter, from Johannes Hevelius to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Danzig (Gdansk)</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Queries the views of the Parisian astronomers about Saturn; sends his figure of Saturn as seen through a 55-foot telescope; concerning the progress of his work 'Machina coelestis'; asks again for the micrometer to be sent which can be inserted into the telescope tube
Read to the Royal Society on 6 November 1672</dc:description>
  <dc:date>29 October 1672</dc:date>
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