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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

Paper, Concerning M. [Jean de] Hautefeuille's work by Robert Hooke

Reference number: CLP/20/94

Date: 31 May 1699

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Discusses the book presented to the Royal Society by Dr [Martin] Lister, entitled 'Recuil des ouvrages de M. De Hautefeuille, contenant ... inventions nouvelles dans la physique et dans les mechaniques'. Notes what is contained within the collection, including explanations of the effects of the speaking trumpet, the process of spring watches, a perpetuall pendulum, and a new sort of balance, and a way of raising water by gunpowder, the art of breathing underwater, a new telescope, a new way of shortening the length of a telescope, etc.

Subject: Engineering, Optics, Mechanics, Physics, Astronomy

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CLP/20/94
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31 May 1699
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Ink on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Robert Hooke

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Robert Hooke, Paper, Concerning M. [Jean de] Hautefeuille's work by Robert Hooke, 31 May 1699, CLP/20/94, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_20_94/paper-concerning-m-jean-de-hautefeuilles-work-by-robert-hooke, accessed on 22 January 2025

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