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Paper, 'Continuation of the paper on the production of light and heat from different bodies' by Thomas Wedgwood

Reference number: L&P/10/13

Date: 1792

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Contains two plates.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophicla Transactions, as 'Continuation of a paper on the production of light and heat from different bodies

Read 10 May 1792

Reference number
L&P/10/13
Earliest possible date
1792
Physical description
Ink on paper and two plates
Page extent
10 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'Continuation of the paper on the production of light and heat from different bodies' by Thomas Wedgwood, 1792, L&P/10/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_13/paper-continuation-of-the-paper-on-the-production-of-light-and-heat-from-different-bodies-by-thomas-wedgwood, accessed on 19 March 2025

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