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Description

Contains two plates.

Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Description of the arseniates of copper, and of iron, from the county of Cornwall'

Read 19 February 1801

Reference number
L&P/11/155
Earliest possible date
1800
Physical description
Ink on paper and two plates
Page extent
26 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Jacques Louis Bournon

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Jacques Louis Bournon, Paper, 'Description of the arseniates of copper and iron from Cornwall' by Jacques Louis Bournon, 1800, L&P/11/155, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_155/paper-description-of-the-arseniates-of-copper-and-iron-from-cornwall-by-jacques-louis-bournon, accessed on 14 July 2026

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