Experiments on the attribution of bodies in a vacuum
Date
November and December 1705
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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Manuscript page number
p2
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 317mm
width (page): 196mm
width (page): 196mm
Subject
Content object
Description
A machine for giving a swift motion to bodies in vacuo without admitting air by Francis Hauksbee. Printed in his ‘Several Experiments on the Attrition of Bodies in Vacuo. Made before the Royal Society at Gresham College’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 24, no. 304 (November and December 1705), pp. 2165-75.
Related fellows
Francis Hauksbee (1688 - 1763, British) , Instrument maker
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