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Paper, 'Quelques remarques sur la chaleur et sur l'action des corps qui l'interceptent [Some remarks on the heat and on the action of the bodies which intercept it]' by Pierre Prevost

Reference number: L&P/12/36

Date: 1802

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79 pages in French and 38 pages in English.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Quelques remarques sur la chaleur, et sur l' action des corps qui l'interceptent'

Read 8 July 1802

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L&P/12/36
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1802
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117 pages
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Pierre Prevost

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Pierre Prevost, Paper, 'Quelques remarques sur la chaleur et sur l'action des corps qui l'interceptent [Some remarks on the heat and on the action of the bodies which intercept it]' by Pierre Prevost, 1802, L&P/12/36, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_12_36/paper-quelques-remarques-sur-la-chaleur-et-sur-laction-des-corps-qui-linterceptent-some-remarks-on-the-heat-and-on-the-action-of-the-bodies-which-intercept-it-by-pierre-prevost, accessed on 20 July 2025

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