RefNo | EL/G2/31 |
Level | Item |
Title | Account of some electrical experiments by Stephen Gray, transcribed by Cromwell Mortimer |
Date | 14 February 1736 |
Description | Details of three experiments from Gray which he had been unable to carry out because he had fallen ill. Mortimer states that Gray hoped that he could develop a theory of the motion of the planets. Mortimer gives his results of these experiments which showed that a cake of rosin would attract the light body |
Language | English |
Extent | 4p |
Format | Manuscript |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 39, no 444, p 400 |
URLDescription | Also available on Early Modern Letters Online |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA7365 | Gray; Stephen (? 1666 - 1736) | ? 1666 - 1736 |
NA8055 | Mortimer; Cromwell (c 1699 - 1752) | c 1699 - 1752 |