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Paper, 'Experimenta circa gradum caloris liquorum nonnullorum ebullientium instituta' [Experiments on boiling liquids] by Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

Reference number: CLP/6/68

Date: 1723

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Fahrenheit presents observations on a series of experiments on boiling liquids.

Subject: Hydrostatics / Thermodynamics

Read to the Royal Society on 5 March 1723

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Experimenta circa gradum caloris liquorum nonnullorum ebullientium instituta. A Daniele Gabr. Fathrenheit, R. S. S'

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CLP/6/68
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1723
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6 pages
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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Paper, 'Experimenta circa gradum caloris liquorum nonnullorum ebullientium instituta' [Experiments on boiling liquids] by Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, 1723, CLP/6/68, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_6_68/paper-experimenta-circa-gradum-caloris-liquorum-nonnullorum-ebullientium-instituta-experiments-on-boiling-liquids-by-daniel-gabriel-fahrenheit, accessed on 12 March 2026

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