'An account of a Book intitled: Christiani Ludovici Gersten Tentamina Systematis novi ad mutationes Barometri ex natura elateris aereii demonstrandas... '

Reference number: RBO/18/28

Date: 1732

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Concerning theories about changes in the weather and the rise and fall of mercury - first part contains the new theory of the propagation of vibrations along a series of continguous elastic bodies (figure in text) - second part applies this thoery to the solution of the chief appearances of the baroscope - last part explains the states of constitutions of the air and the weather connected with them
Read to the Royal Society on 7 December 1732

Reference number: RBO/18/28
Earliest possible date: 1732
Page extent: 14 pages
Format: Manuscript

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'An account of a Book intitled: Christiani Ludovici Gersten Tentamina Systematis novi ad mutationes Barometri ex natura elateris aereii demonstrandas... ', 1732, RBO/18/28, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_18_28/an-account-of-a-book-intitled-christiani-ludovici-gersten-tentamina-systematis-novi-ad-mutationes-barometri-ex-natura-elateris-aereii-demonstrandas, accessed on 05 October 2024

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