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Paper, 'Principia dynamica mechanico-metaphysica' from James Jurin

Reference number: L&P/1/463

Date: 1746

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Principia dynamica, five principia mechanices metaphysica'

Read 13 March 1746

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L&P/1/463
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1746
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James Jurin

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James Jurin, Paper, 'Principia dynamica mechanico-metaphysica' from James Jurin, 1746, L&P/1/463, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_463/paper-principia-dynamica-mechanico-metaphysica-from-james-jurin, accessed on 08 March 2026

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