'A new Contrivance for taking Levels' by J Desaguliers
Reference number: RBO/12/2
Date: 1724
Description
Discussing thermometers and barometers - discussing work by Hooke, Halley, Stephen Gray on this - discusses his own barometer with figures in text
Read to the Royal Society on 11 March 1724
- Reference number
- RBO/12/2
- Earliest possible date
- 1724
- Page extent
- 8 pages
- Format
- Manuscript and typescript documents
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John Theophilus Desaguliers, 'A new Contrivance for taking Levels' by J Desaguliers, 1724, RBO/12/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_12_2/a-new-contrivance-for-taking-levels-by-j-desaguliers, accessed on 12 December 2025
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Paper, 'A new contrivance for taking levels' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
Creator: John Theophilus Desaguliers Reference number: CLP/18ii/16
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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 12, copies of papers communicated 1724-1727
1724-1727 Reference number: RBO/12
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John Theophilus Desaguliers
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Robert Hooke
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