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Account of different instruments presented to the Royal Society by John Theophilus Desaguliers

Reference number: EL/D2/72

Date: October 1733 to October 1734

Description

Different instruments were:
a) machine for making the different forces and velocities of a body moving in an ellipse around another body
b) pyrometer
c) two sorts of diving bells and models in glass of all Halley's instruments for that purpose
d) model of Desaguliers's planetarium
e) model of a wheel to exchange bad air for clean air

Reference number
EL/D2/72
Earliest possible date
October 1733 to October 1734
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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John Theophilus Desaguliers

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John Theophilus Desaguliers, Account of different instruments presented to the Royal Society by John Theophilus Desaguliers, October 1733 to October 1734, EL/D2/72, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_d2_72/account-of-different-instruments-presented-to-the-royal-society-by-john-theophilus-desaguliers, accessed on 13 July 2026

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