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RefNoCLP/18ii/9
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'An account of an experiment made on Thursday the last day of June 1720 before the Royal Society to shew by a new proof that bodies of the same bulk do not contain equal quantities of matter, and therefore that there is an interspers'd vacuum' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
Date1720
DescriptionDesaguliers describes an experiment made on 30 June 1720. He begins: 'I took 3 pound of Mercury, which by measure fill’d three times a small glass jar exactly full, and pour’d it into a thin Florence flask.'

Subject: Physics

Read at the Royal Society on 7 July 1720

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of an experiment made on Thursday the last day of June, 1720. Before the R. Society, to shew by a new proof, that bodies of the same bulk do not contain equal quantities of matter, and' therefore that there is an interspers'd vaccuum. by J. T. Desaguliers'
LanguageEnglish
Extent3p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1720.0018
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8419Desaguliers; John Theophilus (1683 - 1744); natural philosopher1683 - 1744
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