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Paper, 'Concerning the causes of the general trade winds' by George Hadley

Reference number: CLP/4ii/15

Date: 22 May 1735

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Hadley writes that 'the causes of the general trade-winds have not been fully explained by any of those who have wrote on that subject'. He links the trade winds to the diurnal motion of the Earth.

Subject: Meteorology

Read to the Royal Society on 22 May 1735

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Concerning the cause of the general trade-winds'

Reference number
CLP/4ii/15
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22 May 1735
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Ink on paper
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8 pages
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Manuscript

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George Hadley

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George Hadley, Paper, 'Concerning the causes of the general trade winds' by George Hadley, 22 May 1735, CLP/4ii/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_4ii_15/paper-concerning-the-causes-of-the-general-trade-winds-by-george-hadley, accessed on 18 August 2026

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