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Paper, 'Of the communication of motion by impact and gravity' by Isaac Milner

Reference number: L&P/7/21

Date: 1778

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Reflections on the communication of motion by impact and gravity'

Read 26 February 1778

Reference number
L&P/7/21
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1778
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Ink on paper
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66 pages
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Manuscript

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Isaac Milner

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Isaac Milner, Paper, 'Of the communication of motion by impact and gravity' by Isaac Milner, 1778, L&P/7/21, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_21/paper-of-the-communication-of-motion-by-impact-and-gravity-by-isaac-milner, accessed on 07 June 2026

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