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Paper, 'On muscular motion' [Croonian Lecture] by Anthony Carlisle

Reference number: L&P/12/83

Date: 1804

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Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The Croonian Lecture on muscular motion'

Read 8 November 1804

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L&P/12/83
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1804
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Ink on paper
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41 pages
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Manuscript

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Anthony Carlisle, Paper, 'On muscular motion' [Croonian Lecture] by Anthony Carlisle, 1804, L&P/12/83, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_12_83/paper-on-muscular-motion-croonian-lecture-by-anthony-carlisle, accessed on 14 November 2025

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