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Paper, 'A brief account of ye expts [experiments] tryed with Glasse-Balls' by Henry Oldenburg

Reference number: CLP/24/51

Date: 17th century

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The experiments accounted for include: '1. Of driving out ye air by heat only. 2. Of driving it out by vapour. 3. Of their breaking of [illegible]. 4. Of their breaking by a knock. 5. Of ye quantity of water they admitted. 6. Of ye weight of ye air admitted. 7. Of their shrinking and stretching. 8. Of their breaking outwards.'

Subject: Physics

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CLP/24/51
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17th century
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4 pages
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Henry Oldenburg

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Henry Oldenburg, Paper, 'A brief account of ye expts [experiments] tryed with Glasse-Balls' by Henry Oldenburg, 17th century, CLP/24/51, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_24_51/paper-a-brief-account-of-ye-expts-experiments-tryed-with-glasse-balls-by-henry-oldenburg, accessed on 05 November 2024

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    Dates: 1592-1741

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