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  <dc:title>Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Robert Boyle, dated at London</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Concerning political events in Europe; states that merchants have found the North-East passage to China; concerning the East Indian company; details of experiments at Gresham college - finding velocity of a bullet and time of falling bodies in water; that experiments about falling bodies were carried out at St Paul's; concerning Zulichem's system of Saturn confirmed with good glasses and about his new pendulum for longitude; about the post-chariot which will travel from Paris to Bordeaux in 4.5 days; list of enquiries concerning meadows and arable in England by the Committee of Agriculture</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1 September 1664</dc:date>
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