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Paper, 'On the mechanism of the eye' by Thomas Young

Reference number: L&P/11/144

Date: 1800

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Contains seven figures.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The Bakerian Lecture. On the mechanism of the eye'

Read 27 November 1800

Reference number
L&P/11/144
Earliest possible date
1800
Physical description
Ink on paper and seven figures
Page extent
125 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Thomas Young

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Thomas Young, Paper, 'On the mechanism of the eye' by Thomas Young, 1800, L&P/11/144, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_144/paper-on-the-mechanism-of-the-eye-by-thomas-young, accessed on 19 January 2025

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