Paper, 'On the specific gravity, and temperature of sea waters, in different parts of the ocean, and in particular seas; with some account of their saline contents' by Alex [Alexander] Marcet
Reference number: PT/13/14
Date: 1819
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Subject: Oceanography / Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the specific gravity, and temperature of sea waters, in different parts of the ocean, and in particular seas; with some account of their saline contents'.
Read 20 May 1819.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.
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Alexander John Gaspard Marcet, Paper, 'On the specific gravity, and temperature of sea waters, in different parts of the ocean, and in particular seas; with some account of their saline contents' by Alex [Alexander] Marcet, 1819, PT/13/14, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_13_14/paper-on-the-specific-gravity-and-temperature-of-sea-waters-in-different-parts-of-the-ocean-and-in-particular-seas-with-some-account-of-their-saline-contents-by-alex-alexander-marcet, accessed on 06 December 2025
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