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  <dc:title>Copy letter from Monsieur Maupertuis to Martin Folkes</dc:title>
  <dc:description> ' Abstract of a Letter from Monsieur Maupertuis to Mr Folkes, containing an account of his re-examination of the Meeridian of Paris, in order to ascertain the length of a Degree with Deductions for the Figure of the Earth. '

Read to the Royal society on 27 March 1740</dc:description>
  <dc:date>12 February 1740</dc:date>
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