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Brook Taylor
Hans Sloane
Observations of experiments to show the laws of magnetic attraction and to show the properties of attraction of fluids by observing the ascent of water between two glass planes (figure of ascent in text) Read to the Royal Society on 26 June 1712
25 June 1712 Sender: Brook Taylor , Brook Taylor Reference number: EL/T/70