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  <dc:title>Letter, from John Wallis to Edmond Halley, dated at Oxford</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Sends minutes of the Oxford Society (attached); discusses papers of Isaac Newton about measuring the movement of bodies; concerning 'Ludus Helmontii'; discussing monsoons and trade-wides

Minutes of the Oxford Society dated from 30 November and 7 December 1686 with items about shells at the Ashmolean repository, crabfish from Barbados, kernel of an Indian nut, man who was cured of a fainting disease by chewing rhubarb, about a woman who was cured of epilepsy after she was married</dc:description>
  <dc:date>14 December 1686</dc:date>
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