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  <dc:title>Letter from Alexis Claude Clairaut, Paris, to [Martin Folkes]    </dc:title>
  <dc:description>Expressing his satisfaction after receiving word that the King had selected Folkes to fill the place of foreign associate, or member, of the Academy [Academie des Sciences], in the place left vacant by the death of Edmond Halley. It is not only because he is attached to the interests of the Academy that he is pleased by this new acquistion. </dc:description>
  <dc:date>5 September 1742</dc:date>
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