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Paper, 'Experiments upon the resistance of bodies moving in fluids' [Bakerian Lecture] by Samuel Vince

Reference number: L&P/11/36

Date: 1797

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Contains plate.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The Bakerian Lecture. Experiments upon the resistance of bodies moving in fluids'

Read 9 November 1797

Reference number
L&P/11/36
Earliest possible date
1797
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
24 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Samuel Vince

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Samuel Vince, Paper, 'Experiments upon the resistance of bodies moving in fluids' [Bakerian Lecture] by Samuel Vince, 1797, L&P/11/36, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_36/paper-experiments-upon-the-resistance-of-bodies-moving-in-fluids-bakerian-lecture-by-samuel-vince, accessed on 10 October 2026

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