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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

Paper, a prize proposed by the Royal Academy of Sciences for 1738

Reference number: CLP/17/65

Date: 1736

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Subject of the prize is to be on the nature of fire
Read to the Royal Society on 22 April 1736

Reference number
CLP/17/65
Earliest possible date
1736
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2 pages
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Printed

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Paper, a prize proposed by the Royal Academy of Sciences for 1738, 1736, CLP/17/65, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_17_65/paper-a-prize-proposed-by-the-royal-academy-of-sciences-for-1738, accessed on 11 November 2025

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