Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15654

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    Date
    24 February 1662
    Creator
    Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 2006, Dutch) , Natural philosopher
    Object type
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    Manuscript page number
    p1
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 210mm
    width (page): 150mm
    Subject
    Description
    A figure in a letter from Christian Huygens to Robert Moray dated 24 February 1662. A clock-maker in Leiden showed Huygens the precise shape of the two curved plates that regulate the swing of the pendulum.

    Copies at LBO/1/063 and LBC/1/075.
    Related fellows
    Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 2006, Dutch) , Natural philosopher
    Robert Moray (1608 - 1673, British) , Natural philosopher
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