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  <dc:title>Letter, from William Molyneux to Edmond Halley, dated at Dublin</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Concerning the wire in Robert Hooke's level and about applying a pendulum to a watch; discussing Hooke's baroscope; states that objections to Hevelius's work should be sent to him when he is alive rather than dead; thanks for a paper on the doctrine of shooting; sends some wolf's fangs; that Huygens had gone to find the northern passage or to discover longitude - sends questions about latitude, exactness of time at sea and about whether it is possible to manage a 12-foot telescope at sea

Read to the Royal Society on 30 June 1686</dc:description>
  <dc:date>19 June 1686</dc:date>
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