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Letter, 'Account of the tides at Naples' from Charles Blagden to Joseph Banks

Reference number: L&P/10/48

Date: 30 March 1793

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extract of a letter from Sir Charles Blagden, Knt. Sec. R. S. to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. P. R. S. giving some account of the tides at Naples'

Read 2 May 1793

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L&P/10/48
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30 March 1793
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Ink on paper
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1 page
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Manuscript

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Charles Blagden

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Charles Blagden, Letter, 'Account of the tides at Naples' from Charles Blagden to Joseph Banks, 30 March 1793, L&P/10/48, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_48/letter-account-of-the-tides-at-naples-from-charles-blagden-to-joseph-banks, accessed on 19 June 2025

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