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  <dc:title>'An Account of Experiments and discourses made before the Royal Society' by Robert Hooke</dc:title>
  <dc:description>16 January 1683 - details about a weighing scales by which comparative weight of any two bodies can be found (figures in text) 
23 January 1684 - 'A pair of Japan Scales and Weights made and adjusted in that Country' - details of a Japon Stillyard - details of Hooke's own stilyard 
6 February 1684 - designed apparatus mentioned in last meeting to test the magnetical properties of steel with bodies not usually magnetic - Experiments with ice - trying to discover the hardness and strength of ice 
13 February 1684 - To examine the comparative weight of ice and water
20 February 1684 - Experiments to show the 'blebbs' in ice are filled with air which has the same properties with common air
27 February 1684 - experiment to show the limits of heat and cold of water 
5, 12 and 19 March - experiments to show the quenching of red hot rods of steel - magnetical experiments tried with several rods of steel without touching them</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1684</dc:date>
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