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Paper, 'Description of an instrument for ascertaining the specific gravities of fluids' by Johann Gottfried Schmeisser

Reference number: L&P/10/49

Date: 1793

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Contains two figures.

Subject: Physics/Scientific instrument

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Description of an instrument for ascertaining the specific gravities of fluids'

Read 16 May 1793

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L&P/10/49
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1793
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Ink on paper
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7 pages
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Manuscript

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Johann Gottfried Schmeisser

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Johann Gottfried Schmeisser, Paper, 'Description of an instrument for ascertaining the specific gravities of fluids' by Johann Gottfried Schmeisser, 1793, L&P/10/49, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_49/paper-description-of-an-instrument-for-ascertaining-the-specific-gravities-of-fluids-by-johann-gottfried-schmeisser, accessed on 11 November 2025

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