'Brief Account of the Experiments tryed with Glasse Balls' by Robert Hook
Reference number: RBO/2ii/7
Date: 26 November 1662
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Lists eight experiments with glass balls blown with rarefied air - about compression of bodies by the atmosphere - provides reasoning on results, and some questions for future experiments
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- RBO/2ii/7
- Earliest possible date
- 26 November 1662
- Page extent
- 5 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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'Brief Account of the Experiments tryed with Glasse Balls' by Robert Hook, 26 November 1662, RBO/2ii/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_2ii_7/brief-account-of-the-experiments-tryed-with-glasse-balls-by-robert-hook, accessed on 17 April 2026
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'A Brief Account of the Experiments tryd with Glasse Balls' by Robert Hooke
Creator: Robert Hooke Reference number: RBO/2i/7
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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 2ii, copies of papers communicated 1662-1663
1662-1663 Reference number: RBO/2ii
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Dates: 1661 - 1739
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