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  <dc:title>Copy letter from [Alfred Hastings] White, Assistant Librarian of the Royal Society; to Alex Richardson Esquire, Principal of the School of Metalliferous Mining</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Informs Mr. Alex Richardson that 'the problem of the path of a falling body as modified by the earth's rotation was mentioned as a theoretical point that might be investigated practically' by [Isaac] Newton to Robert Hooke. Describes Hooke's subsequent experiment and Newton's re-study of the theory of gravitation.  </dc:description>
  <dc:date>4 February 1921</dc:date>
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