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Description

Contains four plates.

Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of a new pendulum. By George Fordyce, M.D. F. R. S.; being the Bakerian Lecture'

Read 7 November 1793

Reference number
L&P/10/61
Earliest possible date
1793
Physical description
Ink on paper and four plates
Page extent
25 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

George Fordyce

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George Fordyce, Paper, 'Account of a new pendulum (Bakerian Lecture 1793)' by George Fordyce, 1793, L&P/10/61, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_61/paper-account-of-a-new-pendulum-bakerian-lecture-1793-by-george-fordyce, accessed on 16 September 2026

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