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Paper, 'Apparatus phono-campticus or what enquiries are principally to be made by such, who would attend to the certain knowledge of the nature of eccho's' by Walter Charleton

Reference number: CLP/2/35

Date: 1662

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Charleton writes on the velocity of a direct or original sound, the velocity of a reflex sound, and the super-reflexions of sounds or echoes.

Subject: Acoustics

Read to the Royal Society on 10 September 1662.

Reference number
CLP/2/35
Earliest possible date
1662
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Ink on paper
Page extent
6 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Walter Charleton

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Walter Charleton, Paper, 'Apparatus phono-campticus or what enquiries are principally to be made by such, who would attend to the certain knowledge of the nature of eccho's' by Walter Charleton, 1662, CLP/2/35, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_2_35/paper-apparatus-phono-campticus-or-what-enquiries-are-principally-to-be-made-by-such-who-would-attend-to-the-certain-knowledge-of-the-nature-of-ecchos-by-walter-charleton, accessed on 09 November 2025

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