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'Dr Papin's Demonstrations of a Problem of Stevinus to prove that water included in a slender Pipe will press upon a large Basis as much as a Pillar of water as large as the Basis and as high as the slender Pipe'

Reference number: RBO/6/80

Date: 11 November 1685

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Figure of apparatus used inserted between pages 256 and 257

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RBO/6/80
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11 November 1685
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4 pages
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'Dr Papin's Demonstrations of a Problem of Stevinus to prove that water included in a slender Pipe will press upon a large Basis as much as a Pillar of water as large as the Basis and as high as the slender Pipe', 11 November 1685, RBO/6/80, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_6_80/dr-papins-demonstrations-of-a-problem-of-stevinus-to-prove-that-water-included-in-a-slender-pipe-will-press-upon-a-large-basis-as-much-as-a-pillar-of-water-as-large-as-the-basis-and-as-high-as-the-slender-pipe, accessed on 01 December 2024

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