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Experiment aiming to demonstrate the extent of centrifugal and centripetal force on a bowl of water when put into circular motion. Desaguliers uses cork and then lead as the central point hanging over the bowl of water and as the axis of its rotation.

Subject: Physics

Read to the Royal Society on 20 May 1714

Reference number
CLP/18ii/3
Earliest possible date
13 May 1714
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

John Theophilus Desaguliers

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John Theophilus Desaguliers, Paper, 'An experiment made before the Royal Society' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers, 13 May 1714, CLP/18ii/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_18ii_3/paper-an-experiment-made-before-the-royal-society-by-j-t-john-theophilus-desaguliers, accessed on 14 December 2024

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