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 Hauksbee writes: 'I Took a Piece of Sheet-Brass (which I take to be more close and solid than that which is cast) of an exact Square Inch, weighing just 482 Grains.' Subject: Physics Read to the Royal Society on 16 March 1708 Published in Philosophical Transactions as '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' 1708