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Paper, 'Account of the explosion of a meteor near Benares [Varanasi, India] and of the fall of some stones at the same time' by John Lloyd Williams

Reference number: L&P/12/17

Date: 1802

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments and observations on certain stony and metalline substances, which at different times are said to have fallen on the earth; also on various kinds of native iron'

Read 25 February 1802

Reference number
L&P/12/17
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1802
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11 pages
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Manuscript

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John Lloyd Williams

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John Lloyd Williams, Paper, 'Account of the explosion of a meteor near Benares [Varanasi, India] and of the fall of some stones at the same time' by John Lloyd Williams, 1802, L&P/12/17, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_12_17/paper-account-of-the-explosion-of-a-meteor-near-benares-varanasi-india-and-of-the-fall-of-some-stones-at-the-same-time-by-john-lloyd-williams, accessed on 22 January 2025

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