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  <dc:title>Paper, 'A phylosophical discourse concerning hydrostaticks' by Thomas Bates</dc:title>
  <dc:description>A philosophical discourse concerning hydrostatics, particularly regarding aerial bodies. Bates is inspired by Wm [William] Molyneux's treatise titled 'A discourse on this problem; why bodies dissolved in the menstrua specifically lighter than themselves, swim therein,' published in Volume 16, Issue 181 of Philosophical Transactions in 1686 (see CLP/6/42).

Subject: Hydrostatics

Read to the Royal Society on 9 November 1709</dc:description>
  <dc:date>26 July 1709</dc:date>
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