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Contains plate.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The Croonian Lecture on muscular motion'

Read 12 November 1795

Reference number
L&P/10/129
Earliest possible date
1795
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
28 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Everard Home

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Everard Home, Paper, 'On the adjustment of the eye' (Croonian Lecture, 1795) by Everard Home, 1795, L&P/10/129, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_129/paper-on-the-adjustment-of-the-eye-croonian-lecture-1795-by-everard-home, accessed on 08 December 2025

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