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Paper, 'Experimenta et observationes de congelatione aquae in vacuo factae' [The experiments and observations on water made in an air-tight vacuum] by D G [Daniel Gabriel] Fahrenheit

Reference number: CLP/4i/70

Date: 02 April 1724

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Fahrenheit shares details concerning experiments to show the freezing of water in vacuo.

Subject: Thermodynamics

Read to the Royal Society on 2 April 1724

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Experimenta & observationes de congelatione aquae in vacuo factae a D. G. Fahrenheit, R. S. S'

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CLP/4i/70
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02 April 1724
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8 pages
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Manuscript

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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Paper, 'Experimenta et observationes de congelatione aquae in vacuo factae' [The experiments and observations on water made in an air-tight vacuum] by D G [Daniel Gabriel] Fahrenheit, 02 April 1724, CLP/4i/70, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_4i_70/paper-experimenta-et-observationes-de-congelatione-aquae-in-vacuo-factae-the-experiments-and-observations-on-water-made-in-an-air-tight-vacuum-by-d-g-daniel-gabriel-fahrenheit, accessed on 26 April 2025

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