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Rowning presents a description of a barometer.

Subject: Meteorology / Scientific apparatus and instruments

Read to the Royal Society on 15 February 1732. Communicated by Dr [Robert] Smith

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A description of a barometer, wherin the scale of variation may be encreased at pleasure'

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CLP/4ii/9
Earliest possible date
1732
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
6 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Description of a barometer wherein the scale of variation may be increased at pleasure' by Reverend John Rowning, 1732, CLP/4ii/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_4ii_9/paper-description-of-a-barometer-wherein-the-scale-of-variation-may-be-increased-at-pleasure-by-reverend-john-rowning, accessed on 10 September 2026

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    Dates: 1592 - 1741

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