Paper, 'Description of a barometer wherein the scale of variation may be increased at pleasure' by Reverend John Rowning
Reference number: CLP/4ii/9
Date: 1732
Description
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
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- 1732
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- 6 pages
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- 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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Date: 31st December 1733
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1733.0005
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Classified papers: volume 4ii concerning 'Physiology, Meteorology, Pneumaticks'
1694-1736 Reference number: CLP/4ii
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Dates: 1592 - 1741
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