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  <dc:title>Revision of the experiment to fire gunpowder 'in vacuo' by Denis Papin</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Believed that the mercurial gauge was inaccurate - redoing the experiment by making the Torricellian experiment on a pneumatic engine with the gauge in the same receiver - to determine whether the air in the receiver comes from striking the gunpowder
Read to the Royal Society on 26 January 1687</dc:description>
  <dc:date>nd</dc:date>
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