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Paper, 'Enarratio experimenti cujusdam de pondere quodem elevato, quod ad extremam vesica vacua partem appearum erat aper' ['An experimental account of the raising up of a weight hung at the bottom of an empty bladder'] by [William] Croone

Reference number: CLP/3i/3

Date: 1661

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Croone provides an account of an experiment conducted regarding the raising of a weight hung at the bottom of an inflated empty bladder.

Subject: Physiology

Read to the Royal Society on 6 November 1661.

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CLP/3i/3
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1661
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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William Croone

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William Croone, Paper, 'Enarratio experimenti cujusdam de pondere quodem elevato, quod ad extremam vesica vacua partem appearum erat aper' ['An experimental account of the raising up of a weight hung at the bottom of an empty bladder'] by [William] Croone, 1661, CLP/3i/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_3i_3/paper-enarratio-experimenti-cujusdam-de-pondere-quodem-elevato-quod-ad-extremam-vesica-vacua-partem-appearum-erat-aper-an-experimental-account-of-the-raising-up-of-a-weight-hung-at-the-bottom-of-an-empty-bladder-by-william-croone, accessed on 03 December 2024

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