Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14603

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    Date
    24 February 1662
    After
    Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 2006, Dutch) , Natural philosopher
    Object type
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    Manuscript page number
    p63
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 306mm
    width (page): 195mm
    Subject
    Description
    Copy of a figure in a letter from Christian Huygens to Robert Moray dated 24 February 1662 (EL/H1/10/001). A clock-maker in Leiden showed Huygens the precise shape of the two curved plates that regulate the swing of the pendulum.

    This image is copied at LBC/1/075.
    Related fellows
    Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 2006, Dutch) , Natural philosopher
    Robert Moray (1608 - 1673, British) , Natural philosopher
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