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Expand 1 - Classified papers: volume 1 concerning 'Arithmetick, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry'1 - Classified papers: volume 1 concerning 'Arithmetick, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry'
Expand 2 - Classified papers: volume 2 concerning 'Surveying, Opticks, Perspective, Sculpture, Painting, Music, Acoustics Mechanicks'2 - Classified papers: volume 2 concerning 'Surveying, Opticks, Perspective, Sculpture, Painting, Music, Acoustics Mechanicks'
Expand 3i - Classified papers: volume 3i concerning 'Mechanicks, Trades, Engineering, Navigation'3i - Classified papers: volume 3i concerning 'Mechanicks, Trades, Engineering, Navigation'
Expand 3ii - Classified papers: volume 3ii concerning 'Mechanicks, Trades'3ii - Classified papers: volume 3ii concerning 'Mechanicks, Trades'
Expand 4i - Classified papers: volume 4i concerning 'Physiology, Meteorology, Pneumaticks' 4i - Classified papers: volume 4i concerning 'Physiology, Meteorology, Pneumaticks'
Expand 4ii - Classified papers: volume 4ii concerning 'Physiology, Meteorology, Pneumaticks'4ii - Classified papers: volume 4ii concerning 'Physiology, Meteorology, Pneumaticks'
Expand 5 - Classified papers: volume 5 concerning 'Weather'5 - Classified papers: volume 5 concerning 'Weather'
Expand 6 - Classified papers: volume 6 concerning 'Staticks, Hydrostaticks, Hydraulicks, Hydrology'6 - Classified papers: volume 6 concerning 'Staticks, Hydrostaticks, Hydraulicks, Hydrology'
Expand 7i - Classified papers: volume 7i concerning 'Architecture, ship-building, geography, navigation, voyages, travels'7i - Classified papers: volume 7i concerning 'Architecture, ship-building, geography, navigation, voyages, travels'
Expand 7ii - Classified papers: volume 7ii concerning 'Architecture, Ship-building, Geography, Navigation, Voyages, Travels'7ii - Classified papers: volume 7ii concerning 'Architecture, Ship-building, Geography, Navigation, Voyages, Travels'
Expand 8i - Classified papers: volume 8i concerning 'Astronomy'8i - Classified papers: volume 8i concerning 'Astronomy'
Expand 8ii - Classified papers: volume 8ii concerning 'Astronomy'8ii - Classified papers: volume 8ii concerning 'Astronomy'
Expand 9i - Classified papers: volume 9i concerning 'Mineralogy, Magneticks'9i - Classified papers: volume 9i concerning 'Mineralogy, Magneticks'
Expand 9ii - Classified papers: volume 9ii concerning 'Mineralogy, Magneticks'9ii - Classified papers: volume 9ii concerning 'Mineralogy, Magneticks'
Expand 10i - Classified papers: volume 10i concerning 'Botany'10i - Classified papers: volume 10i concerning 'Botany'
Expand 10ii - Classified papers: volume 10ii concerning 'Botany'10ii - Classified papers: volume 10ii concerning 'Botany'
Expand 10iii - Classified papers: volume 10iii concerning 'Agriculture'10iii - Classified papers: volume 10iii concerning 'Agriculture'
Expand 11i - Classified papers: volume 11i concerning 'Pharmacy, Chemystry'11i - Classified papers: volume 11i concerning 'Pharmacy, Chemystry'
Expand 11ii - Classified papers: volume 11ii concerning 'Pharmacy, Chemystry'11ii - Classified papers: volume 11ii concerning 'Pharmacy, Chemystry'
Expand 12i - Classified papers: volume 12i concerning 'Anatomy, Surgery'12i - Classified papers: volume 12i concerning 'Anatomy, Surgery'
Expand 12ii - Classified papers: volume 12ii concerning 'Anatomy, Surgery'12ii - Classified papers: volume 12ii concerning 'Anatomy, Surgery'
Expand 13 - Classified papers: volume 13 concerning 'Monsters, Longevity'13 - Classified papers: volume 13 concerning 'Monsters, Longevity'
Expand 14i - Classified papers: volume 14i concerning 'Physick'14i - Classified papers: volume 14i concerning 'Physick'
Expand 14ii - Classified papers: volume 14ii concerning 'Physick'14ii - Classified papers: volume 14ii concerning 'Physick'
Expand 15i - Classified papers: volume 15i concerning 'Zoology'15i - Classified papers: volume 15i concerning 'Zoology'
Expand 15ii - Classified papers: volume 15ii concerning 'Zoology'15ii - Classified papers: volume 15ii concerning 'Zoology'
Expand 16 - Classified papers: volume 16 concerning 'Grammar, Chronology, History, Antiquities'16 - Classified papers: volume 16 concerning 'Grammar, Chronology, History, Antiquities'
Expand 17 - Classified papers: volume 17 concerning 'Miscellaneous Papers'17 - Classified papers: volume 17 concerning 'Miscellaneous Papers'
Collapse 18i - Classified papers: volume 18i of classified papers concering 'Papin and Hauksbee papers'18i - Classified papers: volume 18i of classified papers concering 'Papin and Hauksbee papers'
Expand 1 - Paper, 'Explication des pieces de l'harquebuze a vent' [Explanation of the parts of the wind arquebus] by Denis Papin1 - Paper, 'Explication des pieces de l'harquebuze a vent' [Explanation of the parts of the wind arquebus] by Denis Papin
2 - Paper, 'A double air pump' by Denis Papin
3 - Paper, 'Une manière de fontaine ou jet d'eau' by Denis Papin
4 - Paper, 'Experiments for voyages at sea' by Denis Papin
5 - Paper, regarding a new engine for raising water by Denis Papin
6 - Paper, regarding an engine that circulates water by Denis Papin
7 - Paper, regarding the water engine at London Bridge by Denis Papin
8 - Paper, regarding an engine for removing water out of a mine by Denis Papin
9 - Paper, regarding the boiling of water by the application of cold by Denis Papin
10 - Paper, regarding the compression of air in the wind-gun by Denis Papin
11 - Paper, regarding an experiment about a bird in compressed air and regarding preserving raspberries and strawberries in gelly of bones by Denis Papin
12 - Paper, regarding shooting by rarefaction of air by Denis Papin
13 - Paper, regarding experiments about shooting in a longer cylinder evacuated of air by Denis Papin
14 - Paper, regarding firing gunpowder in vacuo by Denis Papin
15 - Paper, regarding fruits preserved after boiling in vacuo and firing gunpowder in vacuo by Denis Papin
16 - Paper, regarding experiments on chocolate boiled in vacuo by Denis Papin
17 - Paper, regarding experiments on lemon peel and quinces by Denis Papin
18 - Paper, regarding improvements in the digester of five years ago by Denis Papin
19 - Paper, regarding extract of malt prepared for brewing in the digester by Denis Papin
20 - Paper, regarding the digester used for cooking rice by Denis Papin
21 - Paper, regarding filtration with the aid of the pneumatic engine by Denis Papin
22 - Paper, regarding further improvements and simplification of the digester by Denis Papin
23 - Paper, regarding further experiments with chocolate by Denis Papin
24 - Paper, regarding burning in vacuo and preserving fruit by Denis Papin
25 - Paper, regarding boiling fish in vacuo by Denis Papin
26 - Paper, regarding further experiments on boiling juices of plants and fruits etc in vacuo by Denis Papin
27 - Paper, regarding experiments to refine sugar in vacuo by Denis Papin
28 - Paper, regarding further experiments on shooting by rarefaction by Denis Papin
29 - Paper, regarding how to fill a barometer tube exactly by Denis Papin
30 - Paper, regarding the making of a barometer free from air by Denis Papin
31 - Paper, regarding the making of a barometer free from air by Denis Papin
32 - Paper, regarding an experiment to increase evaporation in production of wares by Denis Papin
33 - Paper, regarding an experiment to preserve cherries in vacuo without sugar by Denis Papin
34 - Paper, regarding improvements to the digester by Denis Papin
35 - Paper, regarding the velocity of air passing into an exhausted receiver by Denis Papin
36 - Paper, regarding baking bread in the digester by Denis Papin
37 - Paper, regarding flint and steel struck in vacuo by Denis Papin
38 - Paper, regarding shooting a spherical bullet by Denis Papin
39 - Paper, regarding the air produced by burning gunpowder by Denis Papin
40 - Paper, regarding the form of the particles produced by flint and steel in vacuo by Denis Papin
41 - Paper, regarding measuring the air produced by firing gunpowder in vacuo by Denis Papin
42 - Paper, regarding an experiment to show resistence of air to a moving pendulum by Denis Papin
43 - Paper, regarding phosphorus kindled in vacuo by Denis Papin
44 - Paper, regarding an experiment to determine the source of air produced when firing gunpowder 'in vacuo' by Denis Papin
45 - Paper, regarding a jet of water in vacuo by Denis Papin
46 - Paper, regarding answers to objections against an engine for raising water by rarefaction of air by Denis Papin
47 - Paper, regarding an Improved Cider Press by Denis Papin
48 - Paper, regarding sound pipes for an engine by Denis Papin
49 - Paper, regarding peas preserved in vacuo by Denis Papin
50 - Paper, regarding the firing of gunpowder in vacuo by Denis Papin
51 - Paper, regarding an experiment involving a jet of water in vacuo by Denis Papin
52 - Paper, regarding gooseberries preserved a year in vacuo by Denis Papin
53 - Paper, regarding an arrangement for distillation in vacuo by Denis Papin
54 - Paper, regarding the products of gunpowder fired in vacuo by Denis Papin
55 - Paper, regarding making spirit of sulphur underwater by Denis Papin
56 - Paper, regarding the relative swiftness of sound and cylindrical bullets by Denis Papin
57 - Paper, regarding the purification of foul air by Denis Papin
58 - Paper, regarding purifying the air and distilling water in vacuo by Denis Papin
59 - Paper, regarding the Camera Aeolia by Denis Papin
60 - Paper, regarding velocity of the air in bullet firing by Denis Papin
62 - Paper, regarding the pump exhausted of air by means of gunpowder by Denis Papin
63 - Paper, regarding the instrument to rarefy air using gunpowder by Denis Papin
64 - Paper, regarding the experiment to fire gunpowder in vacuo by Denis Papin
65 - Paper, regarding use of gunpowder to raise weights by Denis Papin
66 - Paper, regarding proposals to make an 80 ton ship made by Denis Papin
67 - Paper, regarding details of a new lock by Denis Papin
68 - Paper, regarding proposals for some new inventions by Denis Papin
69 - Paper, regarding a new fashion of clock wheels and pinions by Denis Papin
70 - Paper, regarding new improvements of the hessian bellows by Denis Papin
71 - Paper, regarding a second instrument for making spirit of sulphur by Denis Papin
72 - Paper, regarding an experiment to compare the old wheels and pinions with the new ones by Denis Papin
73 - Paper, regarding proposals for improving sea clocks by Denis Papin
74 - Paper, regarding the relation of the experiment concerning the advantage of cylindrical teeth for clock wheels by Denis Papin
75 - Paper, regarding the design of a box to keep the new clock at sea from the alterations of the air by Denis Papin
76 - Paper, regarding the third improvement of the clocks by Denis Papin
77 - Paper, regarding the effect of the first model of the new clock by Denis Papin
78 - Paper, regarding the pendulum clock of Dr Hooke's invention by Denis Papin
79 - Paper, regarding Richard Waller's criticisms of the clock design made in December 1712 by Denis Papin
80 - Paper, regarding proposals about the machine for raising water by the force of fire by Denis Papin
81 - Paper, 'An account of the experiment made December the 20th 1704 at a meeting of the Royal Society December at Gresham College about firing gunpowder in vacuo Boyliano with a candent iron' by Francis Hauksbee
82 - Paper, 'An account of an experiment made December the 26th 1704 to try the quality of air produc’d from gunpowder, fir’d in Vacuo Boyliano' by Francis Hauksbee
83 - Paper, regarding experiments on firing gunpowder in vacuo with a candent iron by Francis Hauksbee
84 - Paper, 'An account of an experiment touching the quantity of air produc'd from a certain quantity of gunpowder fir'd in common air' by Francis Hauksbee
85 - Paper, 'An account of an experiment of the different densities of the air, from the greatest natural heat, to the greatest natural cold in this climate' by Francis Hauksbee
86 - Paper, 'Experiments on the production and propagation of light from the phosphorus in vacuo made before the Royal Society at Gresham College April the 25th 1705' by Francis Hauksbee
87 - Paper, 'An account of an experiment made at a meeting of the Royal Society at Gresham College May the 30th 1705 touching the propagation of sound in condensed air. Together with a repetition of the same in the open field' by Francis Hauksbee
87a - Paper, 'Experiments on the resilition of bodies in common air, in vacuo, and in air condens'd. Made at a meeting of the Royal Society at Gresham College' by Francis Hauksbee
88 - Paper, 'Experiments on the mercurial phosphor [phosphorus]' by Francis Hauksbee
89 - Paper, regarding Bernoulli's discovery of phosphorus on the surface of quicksilver in the Torricellian experiment by Francis Hauksbee
90 - Paper, 'Several experiments on the mercurial phosphorus made before the Royal Society at Gresham College' by Francis Hauksbee
91 - Paper, 'Experiments on the mercurial phosphor [phosphorus] made at a meeting of th Royal Society at Gresham College November the 7th 1705' by Francis Hauksbee
92 - Paper, details of the machine to give swift motion to bodies in vacuo without admitting the external air by Francis Hauksbee
93 - Paper, 'An account of an experiment made November the 25th 1705 at a meeting of th Royal Society at Gresham College showing that light is produceable upon a swift attrition of amber on woolen in vacuo' by Francis Hauksbee
94 - Paper, 'An account of some experiments touching the electricity and light produced on the attrition of several bodies' by Francis Hauksbee
95 - Paper, continuation of experiments touching the electricity of bodies by Francis Hauksbee
96 - Paper, 'An account of an experiment made January the 2nd 1705/6 at a meeting of the Royal Society at Gresham College touching the production of a purple light upon the attrition of glass on woolen in vacuo together with the various phenomena of the same experiment at several tryals' by Francis Hauksbee
97 - Paper, experiment to show the production of a considerable light on the attrition of glass on glass in vacuo and in common air by Francis Hauksbee
98 - Paper, 'An experiment made at Gresham College shewing that the seemingly spontaneous ascension of water in small tubes open at both ends is the same in vacuo as in the open air' by Francis Hauksbee
99 - Paper, 'An account of experiment made May the 15th 1706 before the Royal Society at Gresham College touching the proportion of the weight of air to the weight of a like bulk of water, without knowing the quantity of either' by Francis Hauksbee
100 - Paper, 'An account of an experiment made before the Royal Society at Gresham College, October the 23rd 1706, together with a repetition of the same, touching the production of a considerable light upon a slight attrition of the hands on a glass globe exhausted of its air: with other remarkable occurrances' by Francis Hauksbee
101 - Paper, experiment confirming the production of light by the effluvia of one glass falling on another in motion by Francis Hauksbee
102 - Paper, account of further experiments touching the ascension of water between two glass planes in an hyperbolic curve by Francis Hauksbee
103 - Paper, experiments touching the direction of woollen threads from the centre of a spherical glass to its circumference by Francis Hauksbee
104 - Paper, experiment to show that the effluvia of glass are capable of performing the office of attrition causing a light by falling on the exhausted glass in motion (as if rubbed by the hand) by Francis Hauksbee
105 - Paper, further observations of the experiments on the attrition of glass by Francis Hauksbee
106 - Paper, details of experiments which Francis Hauksbee hopes to carry out
107 - Paper, continuation of experiments on the attrition of glass by Francis Hauksbee
108 - Paper, experiment to show the production of light upon the attrition of glass on glass under water by Francis Hauksbee
109 - List, regarding experiments offered by Francis Hauksbee for the approval of the Royal Society
110 - Table, regarding rarefied and condensed air equidistant from the medium common air by Francis Hauksbee
111 - Paper, regarding a body more ponderous than that of water by Francis Hauksbee
112 - Paper, account of an experiment on the difficulty of separating two hemispheres upon the injection of an atmosphere of air on their outward surfaces without withdrawing the internal air by Francis Hauksbee
113 - Paper, account of the repetition of an experiment showing the motion of bodies in a glass by the approach of a finger by Francis Hauksbee
114 - Paper, account of the success of an attempt to continue several atmospheres of air condensed in the space of one for a considerable time by Francis Hauksbee
115 - Paper, 'An account of an experiment touching the production of light within a globe glass whose inward surface is lined with sealing wax upon an attrition of its outside' by Francis Hauksbee
116 - Paper, 'An account of some experiments in relation to the weight of common water under different circumstances' by Francis Hauksbee
117 - Paper, 'An experiment touching the freezing of common water and water purg'd of air' by Francis Hauksbee
118 - Paper, 'An account of an experiment touching the freezing of common water ting'd with a liquid, said to be extracted from shell lac [shellac]' by Francis Hauksbee
119 - Paper, 'An experiment touching the weighing of bodies of the same species, but of very unequal surfaces, in common water, being of an equal weight in common air' by Francis Hauksbee
120 - Paper, 'An account of an experiment touching the propagation of sound through water' by Francis Hauksbee
121 - Paper, 'An account of an experiment shewing that actual sound is not to be transmitted through a vacuum' by Francis Hauksbee
122 - Paper, 'An account of an experiment touching the propagation of sound passing from the sonorous body into the common air in one direction only' by Francis Hauksbee
123 - Paper, 'An account of an experiment shewing that an object may become visible thro such an opake body as pitch in the dark, whilst it is under the circumstances of attrition and a vacuum' by Francis Hauksbee
124 - List of the main experiments made in 1708/1709 by Francis Hauksbee
125 - Paper, 'An account of an experiment touching an attempt to produce light on the inside of a globe glasse lin'd with melted flowers of sulphur, as in the experiments of sealing wax and pitch' by Francis Hauksbee
126 - Paper, 'Experiments concerning the time required in the descent of different bodies, of different magnitudes and weights, in common air, from a certain height' by Francis Hauksbee
127 - Paper, 'The specifick gravities of several mettaline cubes. Comparison with their like bulks of water' by Francis Hauksbee
128 - Paper, 'Experiments concerning the effects of air past thro red hot mettals' by Francis Hauksbee
129 - Paper, 'An account of the repetition of an experiment of the late Dr Hooke's, concerning two liquors, which when mixt together would possess less space, than when separate: with another experiment confirming the same' by Francis Hauksbee
130 - Paper, 'An account of an experiment touching an endeavour to produce light thro a metallick body under the circumstances of a vacuum and attrition' by Francis Hauksbee
131 - Account of an experiment touching the direction of a drop of orange oil between two glass planes by Francis Hauksbee
132 - Graphs showing the planes opened to an angle of 40 minutes and of 20 minutes by Francis Hauksbee
133 - Paper, 'An account of experiments touching the keeping of fishes in water under different circumstances' by Francis Hauksbee
134 - Account of experiments concerning the proportion of the power of the loadstone at different distances by Francis Hauksbee
135 - Paper, 'An account of an experiment conserning the angle requir'd to suspend a drop of oyle of oranges at certain stations between two glasse planes, plact in the form of a wedg' by Francis Hauksbee
136 - Paper, 'An account of two experiments on the same [lead] with that, of the seeming spontanious asscention of water between two glasse planes in common air' by Francis Hauksbee
137 - Paper, 'A continuation of experiments touching the seeming spontanious asscention of water or other liquids' by Francis Hauksbee
138 - Appendix, 'To be added to the experiments touching the seeming spontanious asscention of water between two glasse planes' by Francis Hauksbee
139 - Paper, 'An account of two experiments touching the asscent of water in wood ashes ramm'd into a glasse tube, one in common air, the other in vacuo' by Francis Hauksbee
140 - Paper, 'An account of an experiment touching the asscention of water between two glasse planes in an hyperbolick figure' by Francis Hauksbee
141 - Paper, 'An account of an experiment touching the proportions of the asscent of spirit of wine betwen two glasse planes whose surfaces were plac'd at certain different distances one from the other' by Francis Hauksbee
142 - Paper, 'An account of several experiments touching the seeming spontaneous asscention of water between two glasse planes' by Francis Hauksbee
143 - Table, regarding experiments showing the drops of spirit of wine ascending between two glass planes 20.5 inches long by Francis Hauksbee
144 - Note, regarding two experiments by Francis Hauksbee
Expand 18ii - Classified papers: volume 18ii concerning 'Desaguliers papers'18ii - Classified papers: volume 18ii concerning 'Desaguliers papers'
Expand 19 - Classified papers: volume 19, questions and answers19 - Classified papers: volume 19, questions and answers
Expand 20 - Classified papers: volume 20, Robert Hooke's papers20 - Classified papers: volume 20, Robert Hooke's papers
Expand 21 - Classified papers: volume 21, Edmond Halley's papers21 - Classified papers: volume 21, Edmond Halley's papers
Expand 22i - Classified papers: volume 22i , accounts of books22i - Classified papers: volume 22i , accounts of books
Expand 22ii - Classified papers: volume 22ii, accounts and books22ii - Classified papers: volume 22ii, accounts and books
Expand 23i - Classified papers: volume 23i, inoculations23i - Classified papers: volume 23i, inoculations
Expand 23ii - Classified papers: volume 23ii, inoculations23ii - Classified papers: volume 23ii, inoculations
Expand 24 - Classified papers: volume 24, papers of  John Collins, Henry Oldenburg, Robert Hooke, mathematics24 - Classified papers: volume 24, papers of John Collins, Henry Oldenburg, Robert Hooke, mathematics
Expand 25 - Classified papers: volume 25 concerning politics and trades25 - Classified papers: volume 25 concerning politics and trades

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