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Paper, 'An account of an experiment of the rising of water in a bolt head upon immersion in cold, & falling upon the immersion of it in hot' by Robert Hooke

Reference number: CLP/20/27

Date: 13 April 1664

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Discusses an experiment where a bold head containing water was placed in a larger container of hot water, and then afterwards cold water, and what happened.

Subject: Physics

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CLP/20/27
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13 April 1664
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1 page
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Robert Hooke

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Robert Hooke, Paper, 'An account of an experiment of the rising of water in a bolt head upon immersion in cold, & falling upon the immersion of it in hot' by Robert Hooke, 13 April 1664, CLP/20/27, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_20_27/paper-an-account-of-an-experiment-of-the-rising-of-water-in-a-bolt-head-upon-immersion-in-cold-falling-upon-the-immersion-of-it-in-hot-by-robert-hooke, accessed on 07 November 2025

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