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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'
Expand 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'
Collapse 18ii - Classified papers: volume 18ii concerning 'Desaguliers papers'18ii - Classified papers: volume 18ii concerning 'Desaguliers papers'
1 - Paper, 'An experiment in order to determine what degree of heat is required to melt some metals' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
2 - Paper, 'An experiment made before the Royal Society' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
3 - Paper, 'An experiment made before the Royal Society' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
4 - Paper, 'An experiment on steel balls made before the Royal Society' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
Expand 5 - Paper, 'An account of some experiments of the congress of bodies made before the Royal Society' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers5 - Paper, 'An account of some experiments of the congress of bodies made before the Royal Society' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
Expand 6 - Paper, 'An account of some experiments of light and colours formerly made by the President and mention'd in his Optics, repeated before the Royal Society' by John Theoph [Theophilus] Desaguliers 6 - Paper, 'An account of some experiments of light and colours formerly made by the President and mention'd in his Optics, repeated before the Royal Society' by John Theoph [Theophilus] Desaguliers
Expand 7 - Paper, 'An account of some experiments made before the Royal Society concerning the properties of light and colours' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers7 - Paper, 'An account of some experiments made before the Royal Society concerning the properties of light and colours' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
8 - Paper, 'Some new magnetical experiments' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
9 - Paper, '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
Expand 10 - Paper, 'An account of an experiment made before the Royal Society December 14 1721, to shew that when a heterogeneous body descends in a fluid with an uniform motion, the whole weight of the body is communicated to the fluid; whereby the pressure of the fluid upon any subjacent body is encreas'd, not only in proportion to its absolute weight; tho in the beginning of the fall (whilst the body was accelerating its motion) the whole weight of the body was not communicated to the fluid' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers10 - Paper, 'An account of an experiment made before the Royal Society December 14 1721, to shew that when a heterogeneous body descends in a fluid with an uniform motion, the whole weight of the body is communicated to the fluid; whereby the pressure of the fluid upon any subjacent body is encreas'd, not only in proportion to its absolute weight; tho in the beginning of the fall (whilst the body was accelerating its motion) the whole weight of the body was not communicated to the fluid' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
Expand 11 - Paper, 'An account of some experiments made to prove that the force of moving bodies is proportionable to their velocities (or rather that the momentum of moving bodies is to be found by multiplying the masses into the velocities) in answer to such who have sometime ago affirm'd, that that force is proportionable to the square of the velocity, and to those who still defend the same opinion' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers11 - Paper, 'An account of some experiments made to prove that the force of moving bodies is proportionable to their velocities (or rather that the momentum of moving bodies is to be found by multiplying the masses into the velocities) in answer to such who have sometime ago affirm'd, that that force is proportionable to the square of the velocity, and to those who still defend the same opinion' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
Expand 12 - Paper, 'Animadversions upon some experiments relating to the force of moving bodies, with two new experiments on the same subject' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers12 - Paper, 'Animadversions upon some experiments relating to the force of moving bodies, with two new experiments on the same subject' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
13 - Paper, 'An account of an optical experiment made before the Royal Society on Thursday 6 and 13 December 1722' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
Expand 14 - Paper, 'An account of the appearance of the matter of the small pox seen thro' a microscope' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers14 - Paper, 'An account of the appearance of the matter of the small pox seen thro' a microscope' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
Expand 15 - Paper, 'An attempt to account for the rising and falling of the water of some ponds near the sea or ebbing and flowing rivers; where the water is lowest in the pond, at the time of high water in the sea or river; and the water is highest in the pond, at the time of low water in the sea or river. As also for the increasing or decreasing of the water of such pools and brooks as are highest in the dry seasons, and lowest in the rainy seasons: with an experiment to illustrate the solution of the phaenomena' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers15 - Paper, 'An attempt to account for the rising and falling of the water of some ponds near the sea or ebbing and flowing rivers; where the water is lowest in the pond, at the time of high water in the sea or river; and the water is highest in the pond, at the time of low water in the sea or river. As also for the increasing or decreasing of the water of such pools and brooks as are highest in the dry seasons, and lowest in the rainy seasons: with an experiment to illustrate the solution of the phaenomena' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
Expand 16 - Paper, 'A new contrivance for taking levels' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers16 - Paper, 'A new contrivance for taking levels' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
17 - Paper, 'Some experiments concerning the cohesion of lead by the same' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
18 - Paper, Experiment to demonstrate the figure of the Earth as discussed in 'Philosophical Transactions', nos 386, 387 and 388 by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
19 - Paper, Account of several experiments concerning the running of water in pipes by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
20 - Paper, Details of a machine to draw damp or foul air out of mines, wells, caves etc by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
21 - Paper, Paper, Account of a machine for measuring the depth of the sea by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
22 - Paper, Account of an experiment showing a syphon running in vacuo by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
23 - Paper, Details of an experiment showing force of moving bodies and velocity by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
24 - Paper, Observations of optical experiments by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
25 - Paper, Account of some electrical experiments by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
26 - Paper, Discussing a paper on the application of the doctrine of proportions to negative quantities by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
27 - Paper, Proposition on the balance not taken notice of by mechanical writers explained and confirmed by an experiment before the Royal Society by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
28 - Paper, Observations of a crane with improvements on the machine by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
29 - Paper, Examination of Perault's axis 'in peritrochio' said to be void of friction by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
30 - Paper, Observations and experiments relating to friction by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
31 - Paper, Experiment to show that the friction of the several parts in a compound engine can be reduced to calculation by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
32 - Paper, Account of two experiments showing friction of pullies by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
33 - Paper, Account of an experiment explaining a mechanical paradox by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
34 - Paper, Some thoughts concerning electricity by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
35 - Paper, Account of an experiment contrived by Dr Gravesande, Professor at Leyden, relating to the force of moving bodies now to be shown to the Royal Society by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
36 - Paper, Account of an instrument contrived by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers to show the different velocities of a planet or comet in its motion round the sun
37 - Paper, Description of a planetarium by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
38 - Paper, Account of an instrument or machine for changing the air of the room of sick people in a little time by either drawing out the foul air, or forcing in the fresh air, or doing both successively without opening doors or windows by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
39 - Paper, Calculation of the velocity of the air moved by the newly-invented centrifugal bellows by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
40 - Paper, Description of an invention to confine steam when boiling liquids by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers, Daniel Nible, and William Uream
41 - Paper, Account of some magnetical experiments by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
42 - Paper, Attempt to explain the phenomenon of the horizontal moon appearing bigger than when elevated many degrees above the horizon by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
43 - Paper, Further discussion of the appearance of the horizontal moon by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
44 - Paper, Experiment to show that some damps in mines might be occasioned only by the burning of candles underground without the addition of any noxious vapour, even when the bottom of the pit has a communication with the outward air, unless the outward air be forcibly driven in at the said pipe by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
45 - Paper, Account of some magnetical experiments by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
46 - Paper, New experiments with ice taken from Abbe Noler at Paris and communicated by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
47 - Paper, Account of some magnetical experiments - making an iron bar magnetical
48 - Paper, Account of some new statical experiments by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
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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