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Letter, from Brook Taylor to Hans Sloane, dated at Bifrons near Canterbury

Reference number: EL/T/70

Date: 25 June 1712

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Observations of experiments to show the laws of magnetic attraction and to show the properties of attraction of fluids by observing the ascent of water between two glass planes (figure of ascent in text)
Read to the Royal Society on 26 June 1712

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EL/T/70
Earliest possible date
25 June 1712
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Brook Taylor

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Brook Taylor, Brook Taylor, Letter, from Brook Taylor to Hans Sloane, dated at Bifrons near Canterbury, 25 June 1712, EL/T/70, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_t_70/letter-from-brook-taylor-to-hans-sloane-dated-at-bifrons-near-canterbury, accessed on 09 November 2025

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