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Paper, regarding sea and land breezes by Lewis Martin Kahl

Reference number: CLP/4ii/16

Date: 12 February 1735

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Kahl aims to show how hot and cold bodies mutually affect one another to explain how the sun at rising may generate more air from the Earth and from the sea so that a breeze from the land to the sea.

Subject: Thermodynamics / Meteorology

Read to the Royal Society on 12 February 1735

Reference number
CLP/4ii/16
Earliest possible date
12 February 1735
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Ink on paper
Page extent
15 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, regarding sea and land breezes by Lewis Martin Kahl, 12 February 1735, CLP/4ii/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_4ii_16/paper-regarding-sea-and-land-breezes-by-lewis-martin-kahl, accessed on 08 September 2026

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