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  <dc:title>Letter, from Lorenzo Magalotti to Henry Oldenburg</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Sends a copy of a manuscript and also a printed paper about the present comet by Cassini; transcribes an extract from a letter with observations of the comet; transcribes an extract from a letter by Steno stating that he was going to write to Oldenburg about his paper on the origin of shells, molluscs and fossil teeth, and mentioning a controversial experiment which was practiced by him in Leyden, Paris and Florence (see EL/M1/46 for details)</dc:description>
  <dc:date>9 May 1668</dc:date>
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