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Paper, 'Of the going of two clocks (mutual action)' by John Ellicott

Reference number: L&P/1/10

Date: 04 November 1741

Description

Responds to previous paper by offering further observations on the two clocks.

Subject: Mechanics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Further observations and experiments concerning the two clocks above-mentioned, by the same'.

Read 12 November 1741.

Reference number
L&P/1/10
Earliest possible date
04 November 1741
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Ink on paper
Page extent
9 pages
Format
Manuscript

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John Ellicott

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John Ellicott, Paper, 'Of the going of two clocks (mutual action)' by John Ellicott, 04 November 1741, L&P/1/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_10/paper-of-the-going-of-two-clocks-mutual-action-by-john-ellicott, accessed on 24 March 2025

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