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Contains plate.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The Bakerian Lecture. Observations upon an unusual hori­zontal refraction of the air ; with remarks on the varia­tions to which the lower parts of the atmosphere are sometimes subject'

Read 15 November 1798

Reference number
L&P/11/77
Earliest possible date
1798
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
16 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Samuel Vince

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Samuel Vince, Paper, 'An unusual horizontal refraction of the air' [Bakerian Lecture] by Samuel Vince, 1798, L&P/11/77, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_77/paper-an-unusual-horizontal-refraction-of-the-air-bakerian-lecture-by-samuel-vince, accessed on 17 March 2026

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