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The paper discusses the motions of water according to the laws of philosophy.

Subject: Hydrology

Read to the Royal Society on 13 December 1722

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Defensio dissertationis de motu aquarum fluentium, in actis philosophicis, N° 355. editæ, contra animadversiones viri Cl. Petri Antonii Michelotti. Auctore Jacobo Jurin, M. D. Coll. Med. Lond. Soc. in Theatro Publico Chirurg. Lond. Prælectore Anatomico, & Soc. Reg. Secr'

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CLP/6/66
Earliest possible date
13 December 1722
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
29 pages
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Manuscript

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James Jurin

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James Jurin, Paper, James Jurin's defence of the paper 'De moto aquarum fluentium' [On the motion of flowing water] by Pietro Michelotti, 13 December 1722, CLP/6/66, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_6_66/paper-james-jurins-defence-of-the-paper-de-moto-aquarum-fluentium-on-the-motion-of-flowing-water-by-pietro-michelotti, accessed on 16 May 2025

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