Unpublished letter and paper, on innate sounds and colours by unknown author
Reference number: AP/4/2
Date: 19 May 1777
Description
Paper regarding the cause and nature of innate sounds in the ear that are not caused by any external vibrations, and innate colours in the eye that are not dependent on rays of light. The paper is preceded by an introductory letter to an unknown recipient, explaining that he had written the enclosed paper many years previously with the intention of cleaning it up to send it to the Royal Society, but that he was too 'lazy' to edit it and was sending it in its rough form. He requests that the paper be burned if it is not deemed worthy of reading before the Society.
Subject: Physiology
- Reference number
- AP/4/2
- Earliest possible date
- 19 May 1777
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 19 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Unpublished letter and paper, on innate sounds and colours by unknown author, 19 May 1777, AP/4/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_4_2/unpublished-letter-and-paper-on-innate-sounds-and-colours-by-unknown-author, accessed on 07 February 2026
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Archived papers: volume 4, scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1762-1780
1768-1780 Reference number: AP/4
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Dates: 1768 - 1989
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