| RefNo | RBO/18/28 |
| AltRefNo | RBO.18.169 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | 'An account of a Book intitled: Christiani Ludovici Gersten Tentamina Systematis novi ad mutationes Barometri ex natura elateris aereii demonstrandas... ' |
| Date | 1732 |
| Description | Concerning theories about changes in the weather and the rise and fall of mercury - first part contains the new theory of the propagation of vibrations along a series of continguous elastic bodies (figure in text) - second part applies this thoery to the solution of the chief appearances of the baroscope - last part explains the states of constitutions of the air and the weather connected with them
Read to the Royal Society on 7 December 1732 |
| Language | English |
| Extent | 14 sides |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 38, no 427, p 43 |