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Paper, 'Of muscular motion' [Croonian Lecture] by John Pearson

Reference number: L&P/12/59

Date: 1803

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Subject: Medicine

Read 10 November 1803

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L&P/12/59
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1803
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John Pearson, Paper, 'Of muscular motion' [Croonian Lecture] by John Pearson, 1803, L&P/12/59, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_12_59/paper-of-muscular-motion-croonian-lecture-by-john-pearson, accessed on 11 November 2025

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