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'An account of an Experiment to be tried before the Society this Evening' by J Desaguliers

Reference number: RBO/13/61

Date: 1728

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Concerning Leibniz's experiment to show the force of moving bodies is the mass multiplied into the square of the velocity
Read to the Royal Society on 24 October 1728

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RBO/13/61
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1728
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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'An account of an Experiment to be tried before the Society this Evening' by J Desaguliers, 1728, RBO/13/61, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_13_61/an-account-of-an-experiment-to-be-tried-before-the-society-this-evening-by-j-desaguliers, accessed on 08 May 2026

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