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Paper, 'De nova quaedam natione explorandi num pendula vi aliqua centrifuga pertubentur commentationum [The new nations examining whether some of the centrifugal force pendulum stayed meditations]' by Johannis Marchionis Poleni

Reference number: L&P/1/146

Date: 19 January 1742

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Contains two figures.

Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Johannis Marchionis Poleni, R. S. S. De novis quibusdam cogitationibus ad explorandum, num pendula vi aliqua centrifuga perturbentur, Commentariolum Illustrissimæ Societati Regali Londinensi oblatum'.

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L&P/1/146
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19 January 1742
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Ink on paper
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16 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'De nova quaedam natione explorandi num pendula vi aliqua centrifuga pertubentur commentationum [The new nations examining whether some of the centrifugal force pendulum stayed meditations]' by Johannis Marchionis Poleni, 19 January 1742, L&P/1/146, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_146/paper-de-nova-quaedam-natione-explorandi-num-pendula-vi-aliqua-centrifuga-pertubentur-commentationum-the-new-nations-examining-whether-some-of-the-centrifugal-force-pendulum-stayed-meditations-by-johannis-marchionis-poleni, accessed on 26 January 2025

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