Unpublished paper, 'On the pressures which sustain a heavy body in equilibrium when the points of support are more than three' by Charles Bonnycastle
Reference number: AP/9/4
Date: 26 October 1818
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Bonnycastle discusses the problem of pressures that elevate a heavy body with more than three points of support, describing the importance of this knowledge in estimating the strength of bridges and building materials. Includes one page of figures.
Subject: Physics / Engineering
Written by Bonnycastle in Woolwich Common [London]. Communicated by Sir Jos [Joseph] Banks. Read to the Royal Society on 11 March 1819.
Whilst this paper was not abstracted in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, a mention of its reading at a meeting of the Society was published in the Annals of Philosophy: 'Article III. Proceedings of Philosophical Societies'. Annals of Philosophy, vol 13, no 76, 1819, p. 307.
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- AP/9/4
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- 26 October 1818
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- 25 pages
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Unpublished paper, 'On the pressures which sustain a heavy body in equilibrium when the points of support are more than three' by Charles Bonnycastle, 26 October 1818, AP/9/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_9_4/unpublished-paper-on-the-pressures-which-sustain-a-heavy-body-in-equilibrium-when-the-points-of-support-are-more-than-three-by-charles-bonnycastle, accessed on 15 May 2026
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Archived papers: volume 9, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1817-1821
1815-1821 Reference number: AP/9
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