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Letter, from Francois de la Croix [to the Royal Society], dated at Versailles

Reference number: EL/C3/3

Date: 07 April 1735

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Concerning de la Croix's treatise on the mechanism of the motion of floating bodies
Read to the Royal Society on 26 June 1735

Reference number
EL/C3/3
Earliest possible date
07 April 1735
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Francois Boissier Sauvages de la Croix

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Francois Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix

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Francois Boissier Sauvages de la Croix, Francois Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix, Letter, from Francois de la Croix [to the Royal Society], dated at Versailles, 07 April 1735, EL/C3/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_c3_3/letter-from-francois-de-la-croix-to-the-royal-society-dated-at-versailles, accessed on 16 February 2026

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