THE point raised by Mr. Cumming in last week's NATURE (vol. xxxvii. p. 584), as to the use of the words density and specific gravity is, it seems to me, of some importance. For many years past I have, ...

UNDER this title I have communicated to the Chemical Society the results of a prolonged investigation on the connection existing between the weights of unit volumes of liquid substances and their ...

Early Science and Medicine, Vol. 25, No. 4 (2020), pp. 302-327 (26 pages) This paper explores the experiments of the English mathematician Thomas Harriot (1560-1621) on specific gravity in the years ...