Description | Letter received by the Royal Society as a result of a statement, titled 'A Curious Fact' (see AP/10 for description). Ferneley quotes the problem as read in a provincial journal, then offers a solution based on the 'laws of oblique fluid action'.
Subject: Physics
Written by Ferneley in Denton near Grantham [Lincolnshire, England] and addressed to the Secretary of the Royal Society at Somerset House [London]. |