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Experiments on the weights of several liquids including spirit of wine, water and brine. Data on the weights of the liquids given.

Subject: Hydrostatics

Read to the Royal Society on 17 August 1664

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CLP/6/16a
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1664
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Ink on paper
Page extent
1 page
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Manuscript

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Jonathan Goddard

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Jonathan Goddard, Paper, 'Observations upon the experiments of severall liquors in a tube of about 36 feet in length erected perpendicularly' by [Jonathan] Goddard, 1664, CLP/6/16a, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_6_16a/paper-observations-upon-the-experiments-of-severall-liquors-in-a-tube-of-about-36-feet-in-length-erected-perpendicularly-by-jonathan-goddard, accessed on 08 February 2025

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