Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 4, copies of papers communicated 1668-1675
Reference number: RBO/4
Date: 1668-1675
Description
Fair copies of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society dating from July 1668 to April 1675. Transcribed to establish their precedence for a particular discovery or idea.
Index of experiments at front of volume compiled by Richard Waller in 1687.
Another index at the back of volume.
- Reference number
- RBO/4
- Earliest possible date
- 1668-1675
- Physical description
- Leather bound volume
- Page extent
- 1 volume
- Format
- Manuscript
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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 4, copies of papers communicated 1668-1675, 1668-1675, RBO/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_4/register-book-of-the-royal-society-volume-4-copies-of-papers-communicated-1668-1675, accessed on 18 March 2025
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Hierarchy
This volume contains 63 manuscripts:
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Index, listing the experiments, enquiries & discourses contained in Register Book 4
1687 Creator: Richard Waller Reference number: RBO/4/0 -
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Mr Mercator's Logarithmotechnia - the Demonstration Promised at the end of the foregoing discourse
5 August 1668 Reference number: RBO/4/2 -
'Additional Answers to the printed Quaeries of Mines' by Joseph Glanvill
22 October 1668 Reference number: RBO/4/3
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The 'Register Books Originals' contain copies of scientific papers submitted to the Society and considered for publication. The papers were transcribed to establish their precedence for a particular discovery or idea.
Dates: 1661 - 1739
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