Letter, from Charles Preston [to the Royal Society], dated at Paris
Reference number: EL/P1/103
Date: 01 November 1699
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Concerning papers read at a meeting of the Academy of Sciences Paris: about the degrees of motion of falling bodies; details of a 'burning fountain' at Grenoble; the heart of a tortoise
Read to the Royal Society on 20 December 1699
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- EL/P1/103
- Earliest possible date
- 01 November 1699
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- 3 pages
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- Manuscript
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Charles Preston, Letter, from Charles Preston [to the Royal Society], dated at Paris, 01 November 1699, EL/P1/103, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_p1_103/letter-from-charles-preston-to-the-royal-society-dated-at-paris, accessed on 24 January 2026
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