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Paper, 'New experimental researches on some of the leading doctrines of caloric particularly on the relation between the elasticity, temperature, and latent heat of different vapours and on thermometric admeasurement and capacity' by Andrew Ure

Reference number: PT/12/18

Date: 01 July 1817

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45 manuscript pages and one plate showing modified barometers.

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'New experimental researches on some of the leading doctrines of Caloric ; particularly on the relation between the elasticity, tempera­ture, and latent heat of different vapours; and thermometric admeasurement and capacity'.

Written by Ure in Glasgow. Communicated by W H [William Hyde] Wollaston. Read 30 April 1818.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.

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PT/12/18
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01 July 1817
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Ink on paper
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46 pages
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Manuscript

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Andrew Ure, Paper, 'New experimental researches on some of the leading doctrines of caloric particularly on the relation between the elasticity, temperature, and latent heat of different vapours and on thermometric admeasurement and capacity' by Andrew Ure, 01 July 1817, PT/12/18, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_12_18/paper-new-experimental-researches-on-some-of-the-leading-doctrines-of-caloric-particularly-on-the-relation-between-the-elasticity-temperature-and-latent-heat-of-different-vapours-and-on-thermometric-admeasurement-and-capacity-by-andrew-ure, accessed on 14 February 2026

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