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  <dc:title>Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Robert Boyle, dated at London</dc:title>
  <dc:description>States that Boyle's magnetical experiments were not practical to be carried out at St Paul's and discusses the experiment with a glass ball in a sealed tube for weighing bodies; discussing experiments to show the descent of bodies in water; concerning the refractions and the belts of Jupiter; quotes letter (in Italian) from Casati about bismuth sealed in a tube; concerning the mineral sent by Winthrop from New England and about the salt-work there; concerning Dutch activities in Guinea; that cases of plague in Holland are decreasing
Postscript of letter has been placed with EL/OB/16</dc:description>
  <dc:date>29 September 1664</dc:date>
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