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Letter, 'On filling a barometer tube' from Mr [Robert] Hooke to Mr Beale

Reference number: CLP/20/30

Date: 24 June 1664

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Gives Beale advice on filling his baroscope. Also discusses microscopes.

Subject: Engineering

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CLP/20/30
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24 June 1664
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Ink on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Manuscript

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Robert Hooke

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Robert Hooke, Letter, 'On filling a barometer tube' from Mr [Robert] Hooke to Mr Beale, 24 June 1664, CLP/20/30, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_20_30/letter-on-filling-a-barometer-tube-from-mr-robert-hooke-to-mr-beale, accessed on 11 February 2025

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