'A Discourse made by Sir Robert Southwell ... about water'
Reference number: RBO/4/59
Date: 1675
Description
Discusses the qualities of water - density, fluidity, elasticity; about tides, seas and rivers (discusses Britain's conquest of the seas); about shipping and trade; concerning land floods; about the Mediterranean sea; about the salt in sea water; about tides and currents
Read at the Royal Society on 8 April 1675
- Reference number
- RBO/4/59
- Earliest possible date
- 1675
- Page extent
- 24 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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'A Discourse made by Sir Robert Southwell ... about water', 1675, RBO/4/59, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_4_59/a-discourse-made-by-sir-robert-southwell-about-water, accessed on 16 June 2025
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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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Dates: 1661 - 1739
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