| RefNo | CLP/18ii/9 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | 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 |
| Date | 1720 |
| Description | Desaguliers describes an experiment made on 30 June 1720. He begins: 'I took 3 pound of Mercury, which by measure fill’d three times a small glass jar exactly full, and pour’d it into a thin Florence flask.'
Subject: Physics
Read at the Royal Society on 7 July 1720
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of an experiment made on Thursday the last day of June, 1720. Before the R. 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 vaccuum. by J. T. Desaguliers' |
| Language | English |
| Extent | 3p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1720.0018 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8419 | Desaguliers; John Theophilus (1683 - 1744); natural philosopher | 1683 - 1744 |