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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An inquiry concerning the weight ascribed to heat'

Read 2 May 1799

Reference number
L&P/11/98
Earliest possible date
1799
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26 pages
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Manuscript

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Benjamin Thompson

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Benjamin Thompson, Paper, 'An inquiry concerning the weight ascribed to heat' by Benjamin Thompson, 1799, L&P/11/98, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_98/paper-an-inquiry-concerning-the-weight-ascribed-to-heat-by-benjamin-thompson, accessed on 18 August 2026

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