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Paper, 'Account of the curious phenomenon observed on the glaciers of Chamouny; together with observations on the propogation of heat in fluids' by Benjamin Thompson

Reference number: L&P/12/65

Date: 1803

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a curious phenomenon observed on the Glaciers of Chamouny; together with some occasional observations concerning the propagation of heat in fluids'

Read 15 December 1803

Reference number
L&P/12/65
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1803
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8 pages
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Manuscript

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Benjamin Thompson

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Benjamin Thompson, Paper, 'Account of the curious phenomenon observed on the glaciers of Chamouny; together with observations on the propogation of heat in fluids' by Benjamin Thompson, 1803, L&P/12/65, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_12_65/paper-account-of-the-curious-phenomenon-observed-on-the-glaciers-of-chamouny-together-with-observations-on-the-propogation-of-heat-in-fluids-by-benjamin-thompson, accessed on 08 June 2026

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