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VI. An Account of certain Motions which Small Lighted Wicks acquire, when swimming in a Bason of Oil; together with Observations upon the Phenomena tending to explain the Principles upon which such Motions depend

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

Patrick Wilson
Affiliation:
Professor of Practical Astronomy in the University of Glasgow

Extract

Dear Sir,

I now sit down to give you some account of the little hydrostatical lamp, which I so briefly mentioned to you in a former letter. As I am far from being fure whether what I have to offer upon this subject may be entitled to the notice of the Edinburgh Royal Society, so I will refer this point to your determination, after you have had leisure to consider the contents.

Type
Papers Read Before the Society
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1798

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