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Paper, 'An experiment touching the weighing of bodies of the same species, but of very unequal surfaces, in common water, being of an equal weight in common air' by Francis Hauksbee

Reference number: CLP/18i/119

Date: 1708

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Hauksbee writes: 'I Took a Piece of Sheet-Brass (which I take to be more close and solid than that which is cast) of an exact Square Inch, weighing just 482 Grains.'

Subject: Physics

Read to the Royal Society on 16 March 1708

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An experiment touching the weighing of bodies of the same species, but of very unequal surfaces, in common water, being of an equal weight in common air'

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CLP/18i/119
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1708
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2 pages
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Francis Hauksbee

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Francis Hauksbee, Paper, 'An experiment touching the weighing of bodies of the same species, but of very unequal surfaces, in common water, being of an equal weight in common air' by Francis Hauksbee, 1708, CLP/18i/119, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_18i_119/paper-an-experiment-touching-the-weighing-of-bodies-of-the-same-species-but-of-very-unequal-surfaces-in-common-water-being-of-an-equal-weight-in-common-air-by-francis-hauksbee, accessed on 14 January 2026

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