Letter, from Stephen Gray to Cromwell Mortimer, dated at Charterhouse

Reference number: EL/G1/65

Date: 28 January 1735

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Experiments to show electrical attraction with animate or inanimate bodies which produced light

Reference number: EL/G1/65
Earliest possible date: 28 January 1735
Page extent: 5 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Stephen Gray

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Stephen Gray, Letter, from Stephen Gray to Cromwell Mortimer, dated at Charterhouse, 28 January 1735, EL/G1/65, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_g1_65/letter-from-stephen-gray-to-cromwell-mortimer-dated-at-charterhouse, accessed on 23 March 2025

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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
1613-1740 Reference number: EL
Early Letters G1
1613-1728 Reference number: EL/G1

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Cromwell Mortimer
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Stephen Gray
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Dates: 1613 - 1740

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