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'Some Waies Of Discovering the Various Pressure of the Air at Sea' by Robert Hooke

Reference number: RBO/3/72

Date: 1668

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Read to the Royal Society on 2 January 1668

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RBO/3/72
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1668
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Robert Hooke

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Robert Hooke, 'Some Waies Of Discovering the Various Pressure of the Air at Sea' by Robert Hooke, 1668, RBO/3/72, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_3_72/some-waies-of-discovering-the-various-pressure-of-the-air-at-sea-by-robert-hooke, accessed on 16 March 2026

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