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Unpublished appendix, 'Some remarks on the manner in which the equilibrium of fluids is usually treated' by James Ivory

Reference number: AP/18/10

Date: 1834

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Ivory provides an appendix to an earlier paper in which an experiment was described involving the heating of of a mass of homogenous fluid at liberty. He quotes [Siméon Denis] Poisson's work on mechanics.

Subject: Fluid mechanics

Received 30 April 1834.

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AP/18/10
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1834
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8 pages

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James Ivory

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James Ivory, Unpublished appendix, 'Some remarks on the manner in which the equilibrium of fluids is usually treated' by James Ivory, 1834, AP/18/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_18_10/unpublished-appendix-some-remarks-on-the-manner-in-which-the-equilibrium-of-fluids-is-usually-treated-by-james-ivory, accessed on 13 August 2026

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