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Account of Francis Potter's invention of a cart with legs by Robert Hooke

Reference number: EL/P1/40

Date: 11 March 1663

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Read to the Royal Society on 18 March 1662

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EL/P1/40
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11 March 1663
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Robert Hooke

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Robert Hooke, Account of Francis Potter's invention of a cart with legs by Robert Hooke, 11 March 1663, EL/P1/40, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_p1_40/account-of-francis-potters-invention-of-a-cart-with-legs-by-robert-hooke, accessed on 12 July 2025

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