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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

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RBO/12/2
Earliest possible date
1724
Page extent
8 pages
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Manuscript and typescript documents

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John Theophilus Desaguliers

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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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