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Paper, 'On the theory of the motion and resistance of fluids' (Bakerian Lecture) by Samuel Vince

Reference number: L&P/10/101

Date: 1794

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Contains figures.

Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The Bakerian Lecture. Observations on the theory of the motion and resistance of fluids; with a description of the construction of experiments, in order to obtain some fundamental principles'

Read 27 November 1794

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L&P/10/101
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1794
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Ink on paper
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70 pages
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Manuscript

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Samuel Vince

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Samuel Vince, Paper, 'On the theory of the motion and resistance of fluids' (Bakerian Lecture) by Samuel Vince, 1794, L&P/10/101, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_101/paper-on-the-theory-of-the-motion-and-resistance-of-fluids-bakerian-lecture-by-samuel-vince, accessed on 01 December 2024

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