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'A Demonstration of the Velocity wherewith the Air rushes into an Exhausted Receiver, lately produced before the Royal Society' by Denis Papin

Reference number: RBO/6/126

Date: 24 November 1686

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RBO/6/126
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24 November 1686
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3 pages
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'A Demonstration of the Velocity wherewith the Air rushes into an Exhausted Receiver, lately produced before the Royal Society' by Denis Papin, 24 November 1686, RBO/6/126, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_6_126/a-demonstration-of-the-velocity-wherewith-the-air-rushes-into-an-exhausted-receiver-lately-produced-before-the-royal-society-by-denis-papin, accessed on 21 April 2026

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