'A Discourse to the Royall Society' made by William Petty
Reference number: RBO/4/55
Date: 26 November 1674
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Topics covered:
- 'Wherein Duplicate and Subduplicate Ratio or Proportion is consderable'
- 'Strength of Timber'
- 'In the Oars of a Boate etc'
- 'In the Motion of horses'
- 'In Mills'
- 'In Gunpowder'
- 'Of Sounds'
- 'Of Smells'
- 'Concerns Visible Objects'
- 'Of Fire and Spirits'
- ' Of Rising & Falling bodies; but particularly of Waters in Pumps and River Streames'
- 'In the Blast of Bellows'
- 'In the Price of severall Comodities'
- 'In Mill Dams, Sea Bancks and Bulwarks of Fortresses'
- 'In the Compression of yielding and Elastic Bodies as Wooll'
- 'Of Elasticity'
- Reference number
- RBO/4/55
- Earliest possible date
- 26 November 1674
- Page extent
- 22 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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William Petty, 'A Discourse to the Royall Society' made by William Petty, 26 November 1674, RBO/4/55, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_4_55/a-discourse-to-the-royall-society-made-by-william-petty, accessed on 10 September 2026
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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 4, copies of papers communicated 1668-1675
1668-1675 Reference number: RBO/4
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William Petty
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Dates: 1661 - 1739
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