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Paper, 'Experiments and observations on light emitted from various bodies' by Nathaniel Hulme

Reference number: L&P/11/120

Date: 1800

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments and observations on the light which is spontaneously emitted, with some degree of permanency, from various bodies'

Read 13 February 1800

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L&P/11/120
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1800
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Ink on paper
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34 pages
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Nathaniel Hulme

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Nathaniel Hulme, Paper, 'Experiments and observations on light emitted from various bodies' by Nathaniel Hulme, 1800, L&P/11/120, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_120/paper-experiments-and-observations-on-light-emitted-from-various-bodies-by-nathaniel-hulme, accessed on 09 February 2026

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