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Pagination is slightly incorrect; page 9 has been omitted.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of experiments on the velocity of sound, made in Holland'.

Read 18 March 1824.

Abstract of the paper published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.

Reference number
PT/17/14
Earliest possible date
1824
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
46 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator names

Gerrit Moll

Albert van Beek

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Gerrit Moll, Albert van Beek, Paper, 'An account of experiments on the velocity of sounds made in Holland' by Dr G [Gerrit] Moll and Dr A [Albert] Van Beek, 1824, PT/17/14, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_17_14/paper-an-account-of-experiments-on-the-velocity-of-sounds-made-in-holland-by-dr-g-gerrit-moll-and-dr-a-albert-van-beek, accessed on 11 February 2026

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