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Paper, 'A brief account of the experiments try'd with glass balls' by Robert Hooke

Reference number: CLP/20/3

Date: 17th century

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Discusses eight experiments tried with glass balls:
1. For drawing out the air by heat only
2. Of drawing it out by vapours
3. Of their breaking of themselves
4. Of their breaking by a knock
5. Of the quantity of water they admitted
6. Of the height of the air admitted
7. Of their shrinking and stretching
8. Of their breaking outwards

Also includes a diagram of these glass bulbs [CLP/20/3/2].

Subject: Physics, Natural Philosophy

Reference number
CLP/20/3
Earliest possible date
17th century
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Robert Hooke

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Robert Hooke, Paper, 'A brief account of the experiments try'd with glass balls' by Robert Hooke, 17th century, CLP/20/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_20_3/paper-a-brief-account-of-the-experiments-tryd-with-glass-balls-by-robert-hooke, accessed on 21 January 2025

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