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Paper, 'Araeometri novi descriptio et usus' [Description of the new araeometer and its uses] by Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

Reference number: CLP/6/69a

Date: 23 April 1724

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Fahrenheit discusses his araeometer [or hydrometer] and the gravity of liquids. Includes an engraved figure of the araeometer.

Subject: Hydrostatics

Read to the Royal Society on 23 April 1724

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Aræometri novi descriptio & usus a D. G. Fahrenheit, R. S. S'

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CLP/6/69a
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23 April 1724
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3 pages
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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Paper, 'Araeometri novi descriptio et usus' [Description of the new araeometer and its uses] by Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, 23 April 1724, CLP/6/69a, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_6_69a/paper-araeometri-novi-descriptio-et-usus-description-of-the-new-araeometer-and-its-uses-by-daniel-gabriel-fahrenheit, accessed on 15 March 2026

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