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Description of an experiment with a sealed thermometer in a coal pit by Richard Towneley

Reference number: EL/T/23a

Date: 1672

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Sent with EL/T/24
Figure of the coal mine
Read to the Royal Society on 27 November 1672

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EL/T/23a
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1672
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Richard Towneley

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Richard Towneley, Description of an experiment with a sealed thermometer in a coal pit by Richard Towneley, 1672, EL/T/23a, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_t_23a/description-of-an-experiment-with-a-sealed-thermometer-in-a-coal-pit-by-richard-towneley, accessed on 11 November 2025

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