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Paper, 'Observations on vision' by David Hosack

Reference number: L&P/10/82

Date: 1793

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Contains three plates.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations on vision'

Read 1 May 1794

Reference number
L&P/10/82
Earliest possible date
1793
Physical description
Ink on paper and three plates
Page extent
41 pages
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Manuscript

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David Hosack

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David Hosack, Paper, 'Observations on vision' by David Hosack, 1793, L&P/10/82, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_10_82/paper-observations-on-vision-by-david-hosack, accessed on 13 June 2026

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