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Paper, 'On the force of bodies in motion' by James Jurin

Reference number: L&P/1/401

Date: 1745

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An inquiry into the measure of the force of bodies in motion: With a proposal of an experimentum crucis, to decide the controversy about it'

Read 30 May 1745

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L&P/1/401
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1745
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21 pages
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Manuscript

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James Jurin

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James Jurin, Paper, 'On the force of bodies in motion' by James Jurin, 1745, L&P/1/401, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_401/paper-on-the-force-of-bodies-in-motion-by-james-jurin, accessed on 08 February 2026

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