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
- Reference number
- EL/T/70
- Earliest possible date
- 25 June 1712
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- 3 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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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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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
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Hans Sloane
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Brook Taylor
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